Richard woke with a silent exhale. His eyes opened, and looked around. He felt wounds healing nicely. He sat up and rubbed the spot he was dragged by, and noticed himself to be in a cell of some kind. This building wasn't the one they we're just at.

How long has it been anyways?

Richard stood and walked to the jail cell and studied it. He looked around for a fuse box and found one and backed away from the metal bars. He then walked over and grabbed a pillow from the crappy prison bed, tossing it to the metal bars. He then watched as it fried to a crisp and huffed some.

"Glad to see you are awake!" Joker smirked and held a camera in his hand, a video camera. "Smile~!"

Richard eyed the clown and folded his arms and tapped his foot in anger.

"What's the matter little birdie? Angwy? HEHEHEHE! GOOD!" The Joker taunted and laughed.

Richard stiffened and looked down at his feet, shaking as he gripped his arms. He growled and eyes Joker with an actually dangerous look. Something foul. This made Joker shiver as he recorded this.

"My my, that look gives a man chills!" Joker smirked lightly. "Fun!"

He then put the recording camera down and walked to the bars and shut the electricity off. Richard instantly shot forwards and grabbed his head, smashing it against the bars, breaking Joker's nose.

"AHAHAHAHA!" Joker laughed and pulled away and opened the cell door, watching Richard dash out after him, and then walked inside it himself and locked it with a remote.

"GET OUT OF THERE!" Richard hissed.

Before he grabbed the bars of the cage, he heard a shuffle down the hall and froze. He then turned around and went into a defensive stance and seemed heavily angry.

Silence.

Richard then caught a knife and looked at it, panting in shock from the surprise. He stared at it for a long while before dropping it with a sharp gasp, it being a throwing knife from a Circus. He frowned as a circus clown, a female, walked from the darkness and turned on a light next to her.

Lights then lit down the hall, and at the very end was a door leading outside. But between it and where Richard stood, there were tons if stuff to go through. Hot coals, trapeze. Tight rope, and below then we're drops built into the floor, long falls to a demise, and under each were two skeletons joker had placed down there. There was even Harley he had to get through at the very end, her smirking and waving.

"Let's preform!" The female clown smiled as cameras moved out if slots in the roof, recording the footage they we're going to capture.

"..." Richard gripped his arms together and shook his head no.

"Oh! But first! Please step into the changing booth to switch Into your uniform Grayson!" The female spun on her toes and honked her nose and held a certian open leading to a changing booth.

Richard hesitantly walked over and stepped in and went pale.

It was his old Flying Grayson suit.

**********

Cyborg was helping Connor and Kaldur around sense his damage was repaired. Megan was still on Mars, in a hospital for her people, sense her injuries required outside help from the other Young Leaguers.

"Thanks Cyborg." Kaldur thanked Cyborg as he was sat down on the couch.

"Thanks." Connor nodded and sat there.

"Have you seen where Artemis went?" Kaldur asked.

"She went to test her new ride I made her." Cyborg smiled happily. "I'm make you guys something to eat." He then stood and moved to his kitchen and began to cook.

"..." Connor turned the TV on and swam through channels to find the right Tv show to watch, and eventually settled on Game Of Thrones.

Kaldur disliked the show, sense it was inappropriate, but said nothing of the sort towards Connor, letting the man enjoy his taste in shows.

Just then, the three guys got a text and looked down at their phones.

Artemis: Guys, Wally was hurt. Bad. He's at the hospital. But he won't be able to fight for a month at least. I went to Wayne manner after he called me screaming. Alfred was dead when I got there. Richard us gone. Batman texted me and told me to tell all of you to stay put, sense you are injured. But Cyborg is to report to the Bat Cave ASAP.

The room went silent, and the TV shut off.

"I wish I wasn't beat up..." Connor then mumbled.

"Go now Cyborg." Kaldur demanded.

Cyborg rushed to them and handed them sandwiches before he then sped off into the parking area and our of the mountain, on his way to Gotham.

**********

After massive reluctance the walls and floor began to give off electricity, which was why Joker was in the cell, smiling. Richard wasn't allowed out if the booth until he was changed, and it was beginning to hurt him with the electricity so he quickly changed into the costume and rushed out. He shook due to the vibration and rushed towards the hot coals.

"Preform your finest! Or whips will correct ya posture!" The female clown smiled happily.

Richard looked at her and took notice of the whip she held in her hands. This factor about her made him shiver and nod.

"Now smile Richard~! The show is about to begin!" Joker's voice came on out of speakers in the long cement hallway.

*Flashback*

"Mom, what if I fall?" 8 year old Richard whimpered, shaking as he looked up at his mother, her being beautiful and tall.

"You won't fall if you trust us. Bravery is key son. If you pretend the crowd isn't there it helps. Trust me. Hehe." His mother giggled.

The crowd yelled and cheered as the Flying Graysons were announced to come out. Making Richard swallow the lump in his throat and put on a determined face. His father approached and set a soft hand on his shoulder.

"Let's give it out all. Now smile Richard, and show to the world, what you can do." His father smiled. Richard's smile gleamed happily, as he was reassured and filled with confidence.

*Flashback end*

Richard felt a lump form in his throat as memories flooded his dead, but he was instantly distracted.

Music began to play and Richard looked confused. He then felt a very sharp pain on his back and he gasped before smiling, getting into a very good ready stance, standing at the edge of the coal bed, getting electrocuted lightly as he stood there.

"Wave! Haha!" The chick giggled and waved and smiled as the music played.

Then, the walls opened up and revealed stands, filled with rows of Joker's goons and low leveled thugs. Richard panicked while he smiled, but he began to sweat. He smiled widely and waved to them.

The cameras then turned on a red small light and the lenses adjusted and began to send out two fixed Signals.

The mountain.

And the Bat Computer.

Bruce was in the Bat Mobile, within the Bat-cave, Cyborg almost inside the Bat-cave, speeding down the hidden road they had to enter secretly. Bruce gasped as his large screen turned in and showed footage. Somehow knowing what it was about, he rushed out if his vehicle as Cyborg pulled up and ran to the desk of the Bat Computer, looking at the screen, first with anger, then with shock and disgust, with fear mixed into the pile of unpleasant feelings.

Cyborg ran up next to him and went pale.

Back at the mountain, their tv was playing and both Kaldur and Connor looked at the screen with worry and shock.

"WELCOME LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! SCUM!" The crowd watching cheered. "HEROS! AND ALL!  TO THE CIRCUS SHOW! Hahaha! Featuring a veteran Trapeze preformer! RICHARD GRAYSON!" Joker screamed. "Say high Dickie~!"

"Hello ladies and Gentlemen!" Richard waved happily, but everyone knew it was a face ass smile.

He was visibly shaking, this only a very good eyes person could catch, but to the ordinary people and scum, he was fine.

"For his first act!" The female smiled. "Hot coals! Can he make it? If not, and he let's out any noises of pain, or any noise besides a huff or a puff! It's a whipping time!" The female cheered and cracked her whip.

The crowd went wild and cheered before the female then shushed them all.

"Now, everyone be very quiet." She whispered. "Proceed Richard Grayson~!" She giggled and turned her microphone off.

Richard looked down at the coals and smiled widely. He then inhaled deeply and lifted a leg up in the air, above his head before he brought it down to the coals, and stepped onto it. His eyes widened but he smiled as he then moved his other foot onto it.

He shook as he began go along with the music, stepping with the beat. Him trying to stay as quite as possible as he felt his feet literally cook.

He looked forwards and panted as he began to show pain, as the more he progressed, the hotter the coals got. This led to him holding in whimpers.

"This is horrible..." Cyborg mumbled, watching with anxiety.

Bruce was shaking in rage, trying to look for any signs of anything that might help pinpoint the location of this horrible act. Connor and Kaldur were on the edge of their seats as well.

Pain.

"Nn!" Richard gasped out audibly.

He then got whipped in the back and let out a cry and stumbled forwards, feeling tears begin to form. He then felt another smack against this back and he cried out in pain and almost fell over. And another followed he felt the world spin, as he shot his hands to his mouth and covered it. Not making another noise.

The whipping stopped.

He continued.