Richard shifted again as his cuffs were tightened for the fifth time.

"Stop it" said the man and as a punishment he tightened the cuffs again. The blood had dried and had mostly soaked into his white school shirt from the new wounds on his arm.

"I don't have to listen to anything you say" deemed Richard giving the still unknown man a glare.
"You know what Richard you do have to listen to me, you always use to" said the man nearly whispering the last part.
As Richard heard the last words he spun around to the man as much as he could and spoke.
"Who. Are. You." Richard said with bitterness lacing his voice.
"Use your brain dicky, I've done this all to you before" said the man and finally it cracked.

Richard knew who this man was, and he hated him.

Richard struggled harder and more desperately as he now knew how much danger he was in.
"Calm down Dicky, after all you're safe with family"

"I don't even want to know why the hell you think that rich kid is out here" said Roy strongly, looking out the window of the two person jet as they flew.
"Trust me for once Roy, I've got this Superman and some of the league reckon Richard's around here" answered Oliver as they flew over a seemingly abandoned neighbourhood of houses and buildings.
"I'm bored"
"Play on your phone"
"It doesn't have much battery left"
"Then continue being bored"
"You suck at entertaining Oliver"
Green Arrow sighed at the last comment and remembered how Richard and Bruce act together.
They always seem as though they're really were blood related, like father and son. Truly he was jealous.

"Stay away from me!" Yelled Richard as the man in front of Richard got off the phone.

"You know what 'Richie' I could have just tortured you and demanded money from your new family, so be glad I didn't"

"No you did something worse how could you!" Richard had started to back closer to the wall as the man stormed over to him. Whipping out his pocket knife again still stained with the younger's blood.

"You know I can still call them if you want" he said kneeling down to the child. Old memories flashed in front of Richard as tears started to form.

"Hey Robin your uncles in the next town we're visiting!" excitedly yelled a young teen with  multi-coloured-dyed hair.
"Really Cal, I can't wait" said Richard as he and his friend ran towards the top tent for practice.

Richard and Caleb walked through the rows of tents for the circus searching for Scott Grayson. Richard had always wanted to met his uncle but his parents had said he was 'bad news with a bad crowd' whatever that meant. 

Lucky he and Caleb had found a picture of John and Scott and knew what he looked like. Having dirty blonde hair down to his shoulders with brown-green eyes, he also had one long scar on his left wrist from an accident that had happened when the brothers were children.
Caleb suddenly grabbed Dick's arm and pulled him over to a green tent with a number of people walking around it.

"There that's him isn't it?!" Said Cal happily while pointing to a man leaning on the support of the tent.

"Yeah I think so, let's go!" Said Dick as he and Caleb ran over to the man and Richard started to talk.

"Hi mister what's your name?" The man looked down at the two boys before he saw the sparkling blue eyes one if the boys had.

"...oh well my names Scott" he said watching the one boy not caring for the other.

"Scott Grayson?!" Questioned the blue eyed boy happily.

"Yeah how'd you know" the older man watched the eyes grow larger as his small smile also grew.

"Uncle Scott! My names Richard Grayson, my dads your brother- John!" Said Richard jumping happily as the man understood what was happening. He was waiting to meet his little bird.

After all the court needed new birds.

Bruce stormed out of the cave up towards his manor. Stepping out of the elevator Bruce rushed to the kitchen in search for Alfred.

"Master Bruce stop marching through here like a crazed animal" demanded Alfred as he came into Bruce's sight of vision. The man of the house stopped his marches and started his much needed 'conversation' with Alfred.

"Oliver and Roy are searching for Richard" Bruce said angered by the new development.
"Good you seem to be having troubles with the task at hand"
"No I don't want them getting involved, nor any of the league"
"At this rate, you need help from the league"
"I don't need help from anyone!"

The argument continued lightly as Bruce seemed to get somehow angrier as Alfred seemed to side with the other crime fighters. Bruce wasted time as he fought and only Alfred seemed to notice. They were arguing while their little Robin was missing, lost and possibly hurt.

"Speedy are you reading any heat signatures?" questioned Green Arrow as he and Roy had found a lead in the search for Richard and had jumped straight for it.

"Yeah, There's five altogether" answered Speedy as he carefully followed his mentor through the dark and dirty halls of the basement of some building on the outskirts of Gotham.

Another corner was rounded by the two heroes and again no security or any sign of life anywhere. The hallways were long and dark, not to add but cold too.

"I don't think anything, let alone anyone has been down here in a long time" commented Roy as he spotted an odd piece of ripped paper with no writing anywhere, however, the sight wasn't strange- after all the building was abandon and trash and rubbish littered the halls. 

"We'll search this building till we're sure of that, we can't risk missing something" answered Green Arrow as he had also been getting tired of this seemly pointless search.

"Turns out two wannabe heroes have finally found you" said Scott Grayson as he entered the small, dark, dirty and cold room that Richard had been chained in for the few days. He walked in with his head held high and the dreaded pocket knife opened in his palm, ready of use.

"Now of course the court doesn't want you harmed, however I am allowed to test your skills" continued Scott as he kneeled in front of Richard, the boys perfect white school uniform now stained in blood.

"Don't" started Richard, that's all he could have said. His vocal cords had been thrown to their limits and back. His lack of food, water or even fresh air had been easily enough to harm alone, but covered in deep cuts and shivering in the splitting cold was getting to much.

"Oh Richard, you should know better, I do love to see people in pain, especially you" Following his words Scott began in cut deeply into the boy's cheek.

The cut wasn't too bad, compared to the multiple other cuts he had endured this was nothing. He could handle it. After watching for a reaction and receiving nothing Scott stood up and left the room, leaving a blood stained pocket knife behind.

Richard spotted the knife and instantly moved one of his two free legs to kick the knife closer to the wall. He couldn't do anything with the knife now, his hands were chained above his head and held to far opposite sides (away from his head) and all he could think to do was to hide the knife as a weapon for later.

Carefully tucking the knife under his upper thigh, Richard calmed himself and continued his plan to take down his uncle and get back to Bruce. This time with a weapon.

Finally it had only been a couple of minutes before the door reopened showing the tall figure of Scott as he entered again. As he got closer to Richard the note that he was holding a number of objects in his arms started to worry the boy.

"Since you've gotten used to my simple cuts, It's time we moved it up a level"

"I can't get in touch with Green Arrow and his partner, where did they go?!" Demanded Batman as he paced in front of the Bat computer with a video call to Superman going on.

"They left awhile ago, don't ask me" answered Superman as he watched his friend easily effected by sleep and food deprivation.

"Since you won't help, then I'll help myself" finished Batman as he hung up the call and climbed into the Batmoblie, starting the engine and speeding out of the Batcave.

"I don't think you can take much more of this" said Scott as he withdrew the used needle away from Richard.

Said boy was still wearing his Gotham Academy uniform pants, however they had been ripped and now looked more like shorts. His school shirt had long ago been ripped open, breaking most of the clear buttons. As well the shirt had once been white, however now was black with a blood red tint.

Richard's shoes had disappeared and his socks were ripped and cut. Honestly Richard didn't even want to see how bad he looked, his hair matted with blood and clothing the way it was.

"What's wrong baby, do you miss your family?" Scott had been mocking Richard for new found family since he'd arrived, and he was over it.

"Leave my family alone you bastard! They took me in! They helped me survive every year after their deaths, and they welcomed me in, no matter how messed up and broken I was!" Shouted Richard as his voice was finally ended.

He couldn't speak, he had barely enough strength to persevere through the punishments, now he had lost all he had left.

Where is Batman?
Where is Bruce?

Suddenly we stopped. We could both head it, shouting. Shouting we could hear it only a few corridors away.

Green Arrow signaled to Speedy and they quickly but quietly raced off towards the shouting.

"-and broken I was!" That was the only words GA and Speedy could make out. They arrived outside a door, it's looked like all the other doors. It's was grey, built with a heavy and strong metal and held in place with only a few screws.

Green Arrow and Speedy made eye contact, 'in three' they said through signals that resembled a count down.

3

2

1

Green Arrow swung the door open and Speedy aimed his bow and arrow.

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