This is the longest chapter I've ever writen.

Words: 6000

So get in your seats and get cozzy because this is will be very emotional.

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Batman: Under the Red Hood 2014
Chapter 6 - Chosing the Side

"I know I'm Nothing Special,
But I Hope,
You won't Replace me." - OkBye

THIRD POV

Doors are suddenly opened as the Joker was throwen into an old abandoned apartment, tighten up as Red Hood was standing on the entrance, holding a bag in his right hand.

Joker coughs and laughs before he get's up in more comfortable position as he faces the Red Hood.

Joker: "Okay. So, what's the plan? Slumber party? Charades? A little Truth or Dare? Yes. I'll start with a dare!"

Red Hood zips opens a bag as he takes out a crowbar.

Joker: "Well, maybe I'll just go with a truth."

Joker says with a little teriffied look on his face as Red Hood walks up to him. Then Red Hood starts beating him up with a crowbar as Joker groans in pain.

Red Hood: "Tell me, how does that feel?"

Joker: "You know, it only hurts when I laugh."

Joker said as he groaned in pain before he laid he's head on the floor. But he then goes to ask.

Joker: "But, hey, I gotta know. Who are you? You said we knew one another, And you do seem really familiar. We double at the prom? Or maybe blow up a school bus together?"

Red Hood: "No. I'm just something you helped to make."

He said as he places the crowbar in both of his hands.

Joker: "That's pretty cryptic...but intetesting. Tell me more."

Red Hood: "Sure. Listen up."

Red Hood picks him up. Then he starts to beat him again.

Batwing flies over the crime alley, as Batman jumps from the plane into a alley.

He walks forward until he stops at the sight in front of him. He narrows his eyes and something came across his mind.

There was his Batmobile, right infront of him. Then he sees himself walking through him as he walks to his veichule.

Batman walks but stops when he noticed that the tires on the batmobile are gone...

Batman: "Unreal."

Then a small boy, about 9 years old, gets up from behind a car, wearing a dusty white shirt and holding wrench in his right hand.

Little boy eyes the wrench in his hand as he sheepishly drops it as he just stands there, looking at Batman.

Batman: "Pf..-Hahahaha."

Batman laughs as he can't believe this first time happened to him.

The flashback disappears as Batman makes a smile on his face as he keeps staring at the spot.

Red Hood: "Hello."

Batman's smile disappears as he greeths his teeth and turns to find Red Hood standing there as thunder stikes as it starts to rain.

Red Hood: "So glad you could make it."

Batman: "This ends tonight. All of it."

Red Hood: "Nobody knows that better than me."

Then Red Hood takes out and throws his shurikens at Batman, but Batman dodges them as he jumps behind a container as Red Hood starts running towards him.

Batman puts explosives on the container, which send it roling on it's wheels towards the Red Hood.

Red Hood jumps over it, but a grapling hook goes over his legs as Batman pulls it as it sends Red Hood on the ground.

Red Hood: "Ha. Oh, you and your gadgets."

Red Hood takes out his knife and the taser as he cuts the rope with a knife then electrifies the rope with a taser, which electrifies the Batman.

Red Hood: "You're not the only with toys."

Red Hood says as he runs at Batman with a kinfe. Batman throws little bombs on the ground near Red Hood as he looks down.

Red Hood: "Crap."

Bombs explodes as it sends Red Hood flying into the air, but he stabs the knife into the wall, as he the pushes off the wall and grabs onto a ladder attacht to a platform and starts climbing up, as Batman follows him by doing the same as he jumps onto a ladder.

The lightning thunders and the rain continued to fall among this dark night.

Red Hood finally comes to the roof and starts running, but Batman jumps onto him, but Red Hood puts a knife into Batman's cape as Batman stucks in place and falls on the ground which allows Red Hood to flip and turn and start punching Batman in the face.

Batman takes out a batarang as he moves quickly, which tears up his cape but allow him to attack as he slahes his batarangs into Red Hood masks.

Red Hood dives towards his kinfe as he takes it put of the ground as he flips and turns as he slides a bit before getting up and run toward Batman with a kinfe.

They ingaged in hand to hand combact as Red Hood is does acrobatic skills as he manages to cut Batman's belt off and cut him by the neck as he bavks away, throwing his knife to his right hand in the defensive pose.

Batman growls in anger as he runs at Red Hood. Surprising Red Hood, Batman grabs him as he jumps over the edge as they fall towards a big church.

They hit a statue as Red Hood falls on the ground, droping his knife, groaning from the hit as Batman steadily lands.

Batman walks to the Red Hood who is struggling to get up as thunder stikes once again.

Batman goes to grab Red Hood from behind, but Red Hood quickly turns around and pulls off Batman's mask/cowl off his head as he backflips, grabbing his knife and lands into defensive position as he looks at unmasked Batman in his defensive pose.

Batman, now unmasked stares at Red Hood as rain falls on his face.

Red Hood laughs.

Red Hood: "Look at you."

Red Hood throws back the mask to Batman who catches it.

Red Hood: "I guess we should keep it even."

Red Hood says as he switch his hands holding a kinfe as he moves his hands, reaching up for his helmet, as smoke emits from behind it. He then takes off his helmet and throws it on the ground, infront of his legs.

Batman: "Y/N."

Bruce states in a low tone as he isn't suprised because he was already knew who was under the helmet, but wasn't ready to see it if it's true.

Y/N just stands there with a proud smirk on his face.

Then thunder boomed and lighting strike lit up the area, as for a split second, Bruce sees Y/N dressed up in his Robin suit, looking beaten from that night,

as then it returns to Y/N with a smirk.

Y/N: "Yes."

Father and a Son. Once partners, they both stand now on the two sides of vengeance.

Batman stands towards Justice and Y/N stands towards Rage.

Batman: "I don't want to fight you."

Y/N: "All evidence to the contrary."

Batman: "Please I can help you. I know what happened."

Y/N: "Oh, you got to talk with Talia, huh? Does it make it easier for you think that my dip in her's fountain of youth... turned me rapid?

Y/N said as he looked down.

Y/N: "Or is this just the real me?"

Y/N kicked the helmet, which rolls on the ground towards Bruce, who stops it with his foot. He turns his eyes back up towards Y/N, who has a smirk on his face as je takes out the detonaitor from his jacket as he pressed it.

Helmet activates, as Bruce dives away, as helmet explodes. It makes one of the statue to start to fall on the ground.

Bruce puts back his cowl on as Y/N run at him. Batman manages to block his punches, but had to jump away, as the statue falled. This allowed Y/N to get behind him and hold a knife near Bruce's neck.

Y/N: "Tell me... what bothers you more, that your greatest failure has returned from the grave? Or that I've become a better Batman than you?"

Y/N asks as Bruce stuggles to get put of his grip. Bruce grabs him by the jacket as he throws him over his shoulder, as now both are holding onto a knife.

Batman:" You're rulling through intimidation and murder. You're just another criminal."

Y/N: "I'm what this city needs."

Y/N then moves knife to the side as it stabs to the ground, surprising Batman, as Y/N got behind him And put a grapling explosive, which shoots a hook at one of the satues and pulls Batman up.

As Batman gets up, Y/N climbed an another statue as he jumped and puched Batman in the face as he has pinned him down.

Y/N punches no stop Bruce in the face. Then Bruce grabs his hand, as he got out his other hand underneath Y/N's foot and punches Y/N in the face And now Batman gets up and pins Y/N down.

Y/N: "Hidden goodies all over, huh? We're both just a couple of walking armories."

He said as Batman goes into his sleeve and takes out a small device.

Batman: "Maybe so, but let's see how you do without your toys."

Then Batman flicks it on, like a lighter, as Y/N widen his eyes, as Bruce drops it onto Y/N's jacket as it beginning to set on flames.

Y/N stuggles to get put of Bruce's grip but he manages to punch him away, as Bruce holds onto the edge.

Then he sees a jacket on the flames falling down. He looks back as Y/N took the hook he used earlier as he throws it away and it attaches, Y/N jumps and tries to swing away, but Bruce jumps and manages to hold onto Y/N's leg as they are swinging in air.

Then they hit a building, as Bruce nearly falled down but manages to grab by the edge, as Y/N just lands and turns to run away as Bruce got up.

Y/N turns a corner and jumps as he smashes through the window of opposite building, as Bruce follows him and does the same thing as he comes through window and punching Y/N foward who smashes into a bath.

Batman: "Enough! It's over."

Y/N doesn't stop as he goes to punch Bruce, but Bruce side steps and Y/N misses. Bruce grabs him by the hand and hits him in the hip, sending him crushing in the wall and then got puched by Bruce into stomach and Bruce smashes his head into a wall.

Y/N takes a piece of a tile, as he swings at Bruce trying to cut him. But Bruce hits it out of his hand and punch him in the head. Y/N goes to fall but he pushes him up as he tries to hit Bruce, but Bruce dodges, as Y/N hits a wall, making a big crack in it.

Bruce grabs Y/N by the neck And throws him, as his head smashes into a lavandi and toilet, cracking the both, but Y/N still didn't get a cut on his face.

Bruce goes to hit him with both of his arms. Y/N tries to blockrd it, but Bruce hits him in the head with both arms. Then Bruce knees him in the face and headbutts him as Y/N hits the wall behind and then Bruce grabs him by his shirt and pinned him into a wall.

Batman: "You say you wanna be better than me. But it won't happen. Not like this!"

Bruce says as he then punches Y/N through the wall as Y/N rolls and then hits a wall as he falls down on the floor as Bruce walks to his side and stares at him.

Bruce: "I know I failed you... but I tried to save you, Y/N. I'm trying to save you know."

Y/N moves his hand behind his back as he takes out one of his pistol. He turns and aims it at Bruce who steps back.

Y/N: "Is that what you think this is about? That you let me die?

Y/N then stands up, still aiming a pistol at Bruce.

Y/N: "I don't know what clouds your judgment worse. Your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality."

He says in a tone which sounded like he was about to cry.

Y/N: "Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. But why? Why on God's earth..."

Then he smashes down the wooden door down with his foot, as the on other side of the door is revraled to be Joker, thighed up on the chair.

Y/N: "Is HE still ALIVE!?"

Joker looks up between them and starts to laugh maniacally.

Joker: "Gotta give the boy points."

Joker muses out, as he hops out the closet in his chair infront of Y/N.

Joker: "He came all the way from the dead to make this shindig happen."

He states as Y/N keeps his gaze at Bruce as Bruce looks at both of them.

Joker: "So, who's got a camera?"

Joker said in amusement as he looks back before turning towards Batman.

Joker: "Ooh! Ooh! Get one of me and the kid first. Then you and me, then the three of us. And then one with the crowbar. Then - -"

Y/N gets pissed of by the last word as he hits Joker in the head, as Joker falls over in the chair on the ground as Y/N knees next ho him, aiming his pistol at his head.

Y/N: "You'll be quiet as possible or I'll put one in your lap first."

Y/N stated in searious tone.

Joker: "Party pooper. No cake for you."

Then Y/N gets back up, pointing his pistol back at Bruce.

Y/N: "Ignoring what he's done in the past. Blindly, stupidly, disregarding the entire graveyards he's filled... the thousands who have suffered, the friends he's crippled. You know, I thought... I thought I'd be the last person you'd ever let him hurt."

Y/N said last part in the low voice as he lowers the pistol a bit and moves his left arm to his face as he removes his Domino mask, revealing now his greenish E/C, with a scar near his left eye, the scar he got from the crowbar that night.

Y/N: "If it had been you that he beat to a bloody pulp... If he had taken you from this world, I would've done nothing... but search the planet for this pathetic pile of evil death-workshipping garbage... and sent him off to hell."

Y/N raised his voice and a gun at Bruce who just stared at him.

Bruce: "You don't understand. I don't think you've ever undetstood."

Y/N: "What? What, your moral code just won't allow for that? It's too hard to cross that line?"

Bruce: "No! God Aimighty, no!"

Bruce yelled but calmed down.

Bruce: "It'd be too damned easy. All I've ever wanted to do is kill him. A day doesn't go by I don't think about subjecting him... to every horrendous torture he's dealt out to others And then end him."

Joker: "Aw. So you do think about me."

Bruce: "But if I do that... if I allow myself to go down into that place... I'll never come back."

Y/N: "Why? I'm not talking about killing Penguin or Scarecrow or Dent. I'm talking about him. Just him. And doing it because... because he took me away from you... You were only family I was left with."

Y/N said in sad tone, his eyes softening in sadness, as he tried to fight tears.

Bruce: "I can't. I'm sorry."

Joker: "That is so sweet."

Y/N: "Well, you won't have a choice."

Then Y/N takes out his second pistol and throws it towards Bruce, who surpised, catches it as he looks at it.

Bruce: "I won't - -"

Y/N: "This is what it's all been about. This. You, and me and him. Now is the time you decide."

Y/N breaks the chair as he picks up the Joker and puts him in the lock.

Y/N: "If you won't kill this psychotic piece of filth, I Will. If you wanna stop me, you're gonna have to kill me."

Y/N stated as he aimed his pistol at Joker's head.

Bruce: "You know I won't - -"

Y/N: "I'm gonna blow his deranged brains out. And if you wanna stop it, you are gonna have to shoot me. Right in my face."

Joker: "This is turning out even better than I'd hoped."

Bruce stares at Y/N for few seconds, before his narrows his eyes. He drops the gun and turns around as he starts to walk away.

Y/N widen his eyes as his mouth stays open, feeling betrayed again.

Y/N: "It's him or me. You have to decide."

Y/N yells, but Bruce doesn't stop.

Y/N: "Decide now. Do it. Him or me? Decide!"

Y/N has moved his pistol now at Bruce as he yelled. But Bruce takes out a batarang from his sleeve.

Time slows down as Y/N greets his teeth and slowly pulls the triger as Bruce looks over his shoulder. Then bullet is fired, which goes straight at Bruce, but Bruce moves out of the way as he turns And throws a batarang, which flies straight into a muzzel of a pistol, as Y/N takes a another shot, it explodes, as Y/N drops a pistol and letting go off the Joker, who falls on the floor.

Y/N holds now his bloody hand as Bruce gets up and Joker laughs maniacally.

Joker: "I can't believe you got him! You expert, rooting-tooting, eagle-eyed, goth-loving marksman! I love it. You managed to find a way to win. And everybody still loses."

Bruce just stared at Y/N who got up and take out a detonaitor as Bruce gets surpised and Y/N pressed it.

Bruce and Joker hear a sound as they look at the furnaces as they see the explosives and a timer which counts 20 seconds.

Bruce goes to stop it, but Joker pulls him down on the floor and holds him by the neck.

Joker: "No, don't spoil it! This is better! I'm the only one who's gonna get what he wants tonight! Yes, bing, bang, boom! We all go out together! Don't you just love a happy ending?"

While Joker was talking, Bruce manages to see Y/N who leans and slides down the wall, his injured hand near his body, as he watches them as Joker laughs.

Then Bruce hits the Joker in the face, as he gets off Bruce anvf falls on the ground as timer counts 6...5... As Bruce runs to stuned Y/N And grabs him by the shirt as timer counts

3...

2...

1...

Then it went off, as it explodes in the building as fore and flames spread.

After the most of smoke clears, we see Bruce, who gets up, removing the piece of rubble off himself, as his suit is damaged and ripped a little.

He holds his hand before moving, fliping pieces of rubble to look for Y/N.

He does that until he hears a laugh. He sees the Joker, laughing, as he is trapped under a rubble, as Bruce stops. He greets his teeth as he goes to get him out of it as camera zooms away on the destoryed apartment, still hearing the Joker's laugh.

[TIMESKIP]

News Anchor#1: "Sources close to the District Attorney's Office have intimated that the case will most likely be dropped due to a lack of evidence."

Now we see healed Dick, in his Nightwing suit as he is squating on one of the rooftops, looking at the news on his phone.

News Anchor#1: "But the Black Mask is still under investigation for his alleged complicity in Joker's escape from Arkham. The guards charged with aiding and abetting the escape were found murdered in the Gotham courthouse jail..."

Dick gets up and graples away.

News Anchor#2: "While the alleged crime lord, Black Mask, was released on 1 million dollars bail for his suspected involvement and is currently awaiting a hearing. Meanwhile, the Joker has been returned to Arkham Asylum. Officials claim extra measures have been taken to ensure another escape would be impossible."

Now we are in the Batcave.

News Anchor#3: "Prior to his arrest, Black Mask was bring strong-armed by the mysterious Red Hood."

Bruce walks to his computer and turns off the news. He turns as he stares at the Damian's Robin suit. But it changes to Y/N's Robin suit, as he just stares at it.

Alfred: "Sir."

He turns to Alfred who walks up to him.

Alfred: "In light of all the recent events, would you like me to remove that?"

Alfred said as Bruce goes back at staring at the suit. After some time of silence, he responds.

Bruce: "No."

Bruce says as he goes to put his cowl on.

Bruce: "This doesn't change anything. It doesn't change anything at all. That suit belongs to Damian now."

Bruce says to Alfred as he looks at him. Then Bruce proccedes to walk to the batmobile and jump in. He turns it on and drives out of the cave. Alfred then walks away.

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"Never missing a chance to gain a psychological advantage, Y/N chose crime alley as our meeting place."

"Where I lost my father and mother to a murderer... where I gained... a son."

"Y/N wanted it all to end that night. But I was going to save my son. Or die trying."

"We could have fought all night."

"But no blow would land as hard as the one I felt when he finally removed the helmet."

"For that moment, I was just a father again. I didn't want to fight anymore."

"I begged him to stop. To let me help. But he wasn't done. So neither was I."

"It was always a contest with Y/N. Him againts the world. Even dying didn't teach him he was wrong."

"There was no more reasoning. No more holding back. He wanted pain. I was ready to unleash it. Ready to drag that kid through fire, through hell and back."

"To show him once and for all his contest wasn't with the world; It was with himself."

"And then, he finally got the moment he'd been planing for three years."

"Y/N said he'd forgiven me for not saving him that night in Bosnia. But that I didn't avenge his death afterward that I didn't kill Joker for killing him was a betrayal he could not live with."

"So he crafted his final challenge for me."

"He wanted to look me in the eye while forcing me to make a choice between our ideals."

"Kill Joker or kill Y/N to stop him from killing Joker."

"But life isn't a game."

"And death is never a choice."

"To make it so is our undoing it would be my undoing."

"I think about killing Joker every day, ending the monster that I let loose on the world."

"But I'll never allow myself that release a promise I made to my father and mother."

"An example to a son that I will never stop fighting to protect from himself."

"I can never stop fighting to protect them from themselves..."

All of a sudden, the former who said these words happened to be sitting in a cafe.

Bruce: "to protect them... from me."

Across him, a man with the glasses crosses a sympathetic look as he looks at the ground with a melancholic glimmer.

Clark: "They only come to know the true power of evil...when we work to suppress it in ourselves."

This made bruce's eyes monotonously glance up to Clark's sight.

Bruce: "You know, when you say spooky stuff like that, you'd just define my contingency plans to defeat you."

He sarcastically said and sipped from his cup.

Clark: "What I'm saying bruce, is that you're the strongest person I know, not because of the 'monster' you fight on the outside...but for the demons, you battle on the inside."

He paused for a second

Clark: "your willingness to open up to me about this... well that shows real strength. And the day you stop reaching out for support, is the day I know I need to activate my contingency plan for you."

He clarified with all sincerity.

Bruce lets out a small chuckle under his breath, indicating at what Clark said really affected him, briefly.

Clark smiled at this and pledged to his friend.

Clark: "We'll find Y/n...together... Right after I find the check."

Bruce stood up from his chair and looked down at his journalist friend.

Bruce: "Thank you, Clark. And I paid the tab before you arrived."

Clark was surprised: "but how did you-"

Bruce: "You'd order the same thing, every time." He grimly smirked.

Clark smirked in amusement.

Clark: "Even in dessert, you have to be two steps ahead, really?"

He got up and followed bruce, as the two dismiss themselves from the depressing cafe.

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Rain falls in a dark night, as there is no life in the street, expect one.

He is running and running, clutching his injured arm. He then turns and walks into an alley, where after few more steps, he stops.

He just stands there, rain falling. Then he falls on his knees. He is looking at the ground, rain falling on his head.

Then he screams/yells, looking at the ground with what was left from his strenght, as he raises his hands into fists, as thunder stikes.

The father has lost a son, and now the son had lost the father.

He stops screaming as he is now breathing big breaths, catching the air.

He moves on the ground as he leans his back againts the wall, as his legs a lossen up on the ground and his hands on his legs,near his body.

Y/N: "ALIVE. He murders me. MURDERS. ME. And He leaves him ALIVE."

Tears start to appear in his eyes.

Y/N: "Alive to HURT, kill, and MAIM. To rob more people of their FRIENDS. Their family. Their MOTHERS. FATHERS... SONS...I was dead... DEAD..."

Single tear slides down his face, along the rain, as he starts to...sob.

Only thing we hear expect heavy rain... is sobbing... of the child... who was left alone... again, to take care of himself in the streets... because...

You don't think he understands what it's like to be ABANDONED?

FORGOTTEN?

To be the ROBIN nobody trusts?

He knows it... because he is... everything what shouldn't go wrong, went wrong.

He cries and cries, his eyes closed, as there isn't anyone to help him.

Then he opens his teary eyes, which now glow full green as he gets hit in the eye, right there where his scar is, with a crowbar.

His PTSD has started again as his consciousness is now in his younger self, in his Robin suit, in the warehouse, with... him.

Joker: "Wow, that looked like it really hurt."

Joker hits 3 times Robin with a crowbar before trowing him again while Robin groans in pain.

Joker: "Whoa, now, hang on. That looked like it hurt a lot more. So let's try and clear this up, okay, pumpkin?"

He says as he taps the crowbar in his hand.

Joker: "What's hurst more? A (hit and groan) or B. (hit and groan) Forehand (hit and groan) or backhand. (hit and groan)"

Joker laughs maniacly as Robin just can groan in the pain. Robin turns and mutters something. Joker get down as he grabs his head.

Joker: " (whispering) A little louder, lamb chop. I think you may have a collapsed lung. That always impedes the oratory."

Then Robin spits blood on Joker's face. For that, Joker hits his head into floor and gets up.

Joker: "Now, that was rude. The first boy blunder had some manners."

He says as he takes out the tissue and cleans the blood of his face. Robin turns and weakly smiles, blood can be seen on his teeth.

Joker: "I suppose I'm going to have to teach you a lesson...so you can better follow in his footsteps."

Joker's looks up, thinking.

Joker: "Nah. No, I'm just gonna keep beating you with this crowbar."

He then press his leg on Robins back as he hits him with a crowbar, laughing evily.

"DESERVED IT!"

"WORTHLESS!"

"PATHETIC!"

"REPLACEABLE!"

"STREET RAT!"

"ADOPTED!"

"UNLOVED!"

"ZOMBIE!"

"CRIMINAL!"

"BETTER OF DEAD!"

"CROWBAR..."

"DEAD!"

"SCUM!"

As he hears voices while begin beaten up, Robin can just close his eye.

But then flash of light flashes in his eyes. He slowly opens his eyes as the diffrent light shines as he see the TV infront of him.

FLASHBACK

Y/N was sick/ill that day, so he would now miss the patrol. He was currently sitting on the couch in the living room.

He coughs, his face was pale, his nose red, his domino mask and cape on the edge of the couch, as he is the Robin suit, covered with a blanket.

He coughs as Alfred walks to him, as he places the bowl of soup infront of him on the small table.

Alfred then grabs the remote as he turns on the TV.

Alfred: "Let us see what's on the telly tonight."

Y/N groans as he see Alfred doing all of this.

Y/N: "I'm not the a baby! I can take care of myself!"

Y/N yelled in cracked voice as Alfred walks away. This was true, he has took care of himself for 2 years on the streets before he came here.

Alfred: "Then I wish you would, master Y/N."

Y/N sighs in annoyance as he turns towards TV, as he pulls the blanket over himself.

Then he hears the doors opening. He turns to his left as he see Bruce coming in the room, in his suit, without a cowl.

Bruce: "How are you feeling, Y/N?"

Y/N: "Like shit, but why you didn't go on the patrol?"

Bruce: "Taking a night off once in a while isn't the a crime, Y/N."

Bruce responded as he took his cape off. Then he walks to the couch and leans on it.

Bruce: "So, what are we watching?"

Bruce said as he smiles to Y/N who is looking at him with his pale face.

Y/N: "You know (coughs)... I never watched the 'Star Wars' of which you were talking about."

So they watched the Star Wars marahton that night.

Alfred goes to check on them as he steps into the room. He sees as they are now watching the the show on TV currently.

Y/N is currently sleeping, his head leaned on the Bruce's shoulder, as he is covered with a blanket and with his cape while Bruce is watching the TV, eating the popcorns from the bowl in his lap.

FLASBACK ENDS

His pleasantries, his politeness and how gently he would apprehend him.

That smile, that gentle demeanor and that sweetness...

He cared. He wasn't afraid to show affection. He was... father to him.

And he never gave up on him.

Joker continues to beat Robin with a crowbar. He goes to hit him again. But, the crowbar is stopped. The hand cought it and stop it.

Joker is shocked. He sees now that Robin is holding a crowbar, handcuffs around his hands were broken.

Then Y/N pulls the crowbar towards him, pulling Joker with it and then delivers the punch to the Joker face as he is punchef away on the ground.

Joker groans as he holds his nose while Robin gets up as he holds the crowbar now.

Joker growls as he goes to attack Robin.

But he is punched in by crowbar as he falls on the ground again.

Robin walks to him as Joker holds his now bloody nose. He looks up and his eyes widen.

Now infornt of him isn't Robin anymore, but Y/N, in his Red Hood outfit, without a helmet, but has domino mask on.

Y/N grabs Joker by the neck and lifts him up, as the warehouse around them disappears into nothing but white landscape.

As Y/N holds the Joker in the air, Joker starts to twich and mist coming out from him as Joker turns into...

Y/N

Y/N in his Red Hood outfit with a helmet on, but his skin is grey and he has 4 demonic red eyes on his helmet.

It looks like it was true. Bruce was right.

"To show him once and for all his contest wasn't with the world; It was with himself."

Y/N isn't suprised or scared of what he is holding because HE. DOESN'T. CARE.

Demonic Y/N: "What are you doing!?"

Demon yells.

Demonic Y/N: "I gave you everything. You could have been unstopable!"

Y/N: "..... No."

Ask Y/N responded a cage appeared to his left as it came closer to them and it doors opened.

Y/N: "You didn't gave me anything."

Y/N moves towards the cage as is still holding the demon in air.

Y/N: "You took everything for me. My life. My choice. My father.... Myself."

Y/N then throws the demon i side a cage. He gets down as he lifts up the door and closes the cage as demon comes and holds for the doors bars.

Y/N turns as cage starts to move away.

Demon Y/N: "Maybe you won this battle, but you will never win the war! You hear me!? You hear me!?"

Demon yells as he disappears with the cage into nothingness.

We zoom in on Y/N's face as we move to his left eye, as green glow dissapears and it returns to his greenish E/C.

We zoomed out off his eye as we see we are back in the alley as rain isn't falling anymore

Y/N isn't sobbing anymore as he is breathing slowly, taking slow breaths.

He raises his injured and bloody ha d as he stares at it. He needs to patch it.

He looks around his surroundings. Then he spots a box. He slowly gets up, groaning still in pain, as he moves towards the box.

He kneels next to it and opens it. In it he finds some old bandages and they weren't went. Guess he has do with that for now.

He takes them out and puts them around his injured arm. He sees some thing in the corner of his eyes.

He looks into a box and sees a black shirt, with something red on it. He takes it out with his healty arm.

He spreads it and turns around. On the shirt, he see a red bat symbol in the middle of the upper part of the black shirt.

Y/N just stares at it in thought. Then he dress the shirt on as he stands up. He looks himself into his reflection in the puddle.

Y/N: "Not bad... not bad at all."

With that he walks out the alley.

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Next:

ARC II.

Batman: Bad Blood

How do you think Y/N will react when he has to help to save Bruce while trying not tell others that he is person under the red hood?

Him and Damian?

Some walls may be broken, but the house didn't fall.

Well you will found put soon.