(This story is mainly based on the DC comics and will be a bit longer. I am sorry for some probably wrong sentences in it. I'm not a native speaker and this is my first attampt translation of my own fanfiction. Please feel free to inform me if some parts are hard to understand. I will try to make them better for you guys. Also as always the Charakters belong to DC and I will point out some canon things with marked* comments. Have fun!ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ )

Still dazed, Nightwing slowly gained his consciousness back. The first thing he felt were the vibrations from the floor and the sough in his ears. He raised his eyelids laboriously. His blurred vision cleared slowly and mountains of burning debris piled up in front of him. 

Still confused, he gradually sat up, trying to understand what had happened and so piece by piece memories poured back into his confused mind. The occult organization he had pursued with the Teen Titans, the opening of a portal and this demon which catapulted him into the next wall with just a flick of his finger, ... Trigon.

Immediately Nightwing was wide awake. He coughed violently to get rid of the dust in his lungs. The many destroyed buildings around him and all the soot stung inside his chest. He had to get up immediately and check on Damian and the others. After all, it was his job to protect them. He would never forgive himself if something happened to one of these teens.

Nightwing rose and stood, still a little shaky , back on his feet before he winced in pain. He must have bruised a few ribs on the impact, if not even broke one or two. His left arm hung motionless by his side. Balled out and he thought to himself why it always have to be his arms that get to be hurt in a fight. Dick started to believe it was some kind of running gack among the bad guys. Fortunately, experience came with frequency. So he dragged himself to the next ironpillar, concentrated briefly on his breath, and rammed his shoulder against the hard metal at the right angle. Accompanied by a loud crack , the joint slipped back into its pan and Dick breathed calm the familiar pain away.

Nightwing looked around again. Only leftovers and ashes, but no Justice League or Titan members. He had to be thrown further away as he first thought, or the battle now took place somewhere else.

Suddenly there was a loud explosion behind a destroyed skyscraper right in front of him. Assuming that this was not caused by some leaking gas, Dick took his strength together and ran as well as his body was currently able to after the noise.

The further he got, the louder it was. Shrieks of strange creatures and fighting noises confirmed that his assume was indeet correct and when he saw Starfire up in the sky shooting at something, he speeded up.

Nightwing just turned around the next corner, when he could only avoit, thaks to his good reflexes, Superman who was flying towards him and crashed into the next big building that then collapsed loudly over the No. 1 Justice League member. Dick's eyes widened. This Trigon was probably not the normal type of villain, if even Superman could be knocked out so easily by him. Because aktually there was nothing moved under that building anymore.

Dick swallowed hard. He was starting to feel really queasy before his head now turned to look at the battlefielt in front of him. 

Trigon stood in the middle of a crater of ashes and fire. Surrounded by Justice League members lying on the ground and behind him the open portal to his hellish dimension, from which more and more monsters poured out. Some of the remaining members tried their best to keep the creatures away from Starfire , Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Batman so that they could continue to fight the main demon unhindered. Trigon, however, only smiled at thier efforts.

It really didn't look good for them.

A moan to his left tore Nightwing out of this scene. Not far from him something stirred under a small pile of rubble and as Dick looked closer, he saw that it was Damian who sat up slowly. Nightwing immediately ran towards him: "Robin, are you all right?"

Dick got down next to him and grabbed his shoulders to see if he had been injured anywere. But accept a small laceration on the head and several scratches, he seemed to be unharmed. The Kid shook his hands away in annoyens: 

"I'm fine, idiot ... you look like shit."

 Dick sighed in relief before he responded to the comment with a grin: 

"I am happy to return that compliment."

 But he now switched to a more serious tone: "Where are the other Titans?"

Damian coughed a little before he spoke: "Batman had them evacuated."

"You should get out of here as well. This time it's really too dangerous."

Damien growled angrily: 

"If it gets too dangerous for you Nightwing, then leave. I can take good care of myself."

Dick rubbed the base of his nose in disbelieve. That this child can't even listen to him for once.

 "Listen. I know that you are a talented guy and under other circumstances you can do whatever you want but without a lucrative plan we can not make any difference to this Situation right now. If something happens to you, Batman will kill me. He probably doesn't even know you're still here! The Justice League is down. Superman is knocked out. What exactly do you think you can do!?"

Grayson noticed that he had ended up quite loud and Damian looked at him in confusion. He had never shouted at this kid before and the last thing he wanted to do was to start with that right now: 

"Sorry, I'm just a little under some pressure. But please leave your stubbornness away just ones and consider this situation rationally. Even after the complete Justice League had attacked him, Trigon hasn't even had suffered a single scratch until now. How do you think you are going to defeat him?"

Damian raised an eyebrow and started to grin mockingly:

"I have Raven."

Perplexed Dick asked again: "Raven?"

"She is behind us in the building and is gathering her strength right now. If she has collected enough, she may be able to defeat this demon. After all, she is his daughter. This is our only chance."

A loud crackle interrupted the two briefly and they looked up at the battlefield. Wonder Woman was rammed into the ground by Trigon and Batman also flew across the crater. Both layed now wounded on the ground and did not move anymore.

Nightwing took up the word again: "I hope she will be finished soon, because we are slowly running out of our armed forces."

"I'm ready." 

Raven stepped behind the two brothers resolutely to face her father.

"When you just speak oft the devil. Well, what can Robin and I do to support you?"

"First I need a distraction so that I can use my magic to envelop my father unnoticed with it. If I have him under control, he will be vulnerable. You then have to attack him to further weaken his body. If everything works out, I can seal him in my crystal and send the monsters back through the portal . At least that's the theory."

Dick looked back at the battlefield. Cyborg, who was hit by Trigon's laser, had been knocked out just now.

 "Let me guess. If we fail the world will go down hill."

 Raven just nodded in response. Nightwing let out a tense breath before a grin spread across his face: 

"Well then let's kick this goat in the ass."

and Damian added:

"Be glad Alfred didn't hear that."

Trigon had defeated the Justice League. The onlyone still fighting was this redheaded woman in the sky, but she was busy with his creatures anyway. His hooves stomped triumphantly over the ashy ground with the goal to first destroying this pathetic little city and then this lousy world.

 These flies at his feet were truly nothing to care about. Weaklings who weren't worthy of his attention. He thought that this universe knew how to defend itself at least little bit. But this was pretty ridiculous. As if a shark was fighting a tadpole. How pathetic.

Trigon was already halfway out of the crater when something hit the back of his head. A bit surprised the demon turned around only to see Nightwing about 10 meters behind him throwing stones at his direction.

Trigons deep demonic voice sent shivers down Dick's back when he spoke: 

"And I thought I had eliminated all the annoying flies."

"Well if the others are flies, I'm more of an mosquito species. Espeacially annoying."

Dick grinned at the demon as he said that and threw another stone that bounced off Trigon's forehead like a little raindrop. Dick would never admit it, but he was really scared at the moment.

"You act like a monkey." said the demon, crossing his arms.

"Better an ape than such an ugly freak like you. I mean seriously, was your Blobfish-Mother impregnanted by a goat and a spider at the same time or are you just a failed experiment which should bring the ugliest cattle out of all living beings to life. I can guarantee you that you definitely have the Osca for best Halloween costume in your pocket. No wonder you only have facial gourds as your underlings."

Nightwing accompanied each of his remarks with further rubble that he threw at the demon.

Slowly, Trigon walked back to Dick. 

Grayson knew that he was playing with more than just with fire. Oh boi, that was nitroglycerin and it would make him equal to blow up, like a chicken stepping on a land mine.

Trigon came to halt right in front of Nightwing. 

Richard swallowed briefly at the close up view of his counterparts size. Dick was 1.78 meters tall, but compared to the 1 meter taller demon, he looked more like a child. Trigon only smiled before he grabbed the young man by the collar of his suit and brought him up to his eye level:

 "You are a funny fellow. There are rarely beings who are this brazen. Espacilly weaklings like you. Maybe I should keep you. Breaking every bone, pulling every tooth and nail out of your weak little body. Watching how acid burns of your ugly face until you are only a shriveled meat sack that is just kept alive for entertaiment and will keep asking me to kill it." 

Trigon moved his face a little closer to Nightwings:

"But when that time comes, all I'm willing to do is cuttig out this cheeky tongue of yours and take away this last hope of an relieaving death."

Dick grew a little ill at the thought of such an end, but he showed no sign of it. Instead he couldn't believe that he really said this next sentence: 

"At least I will then still look better than you, Stupid Dickhead!" 

To put the cherry on top of everything, Dick skillfully spat in the face of the demon. Trigon got visibly angry and positioned his claws directly in front of Nightwing's face: 

"Say goodbye to your filthy eyes, you worm."

The black-haired had almost not expected to be safed, considering the sharp nails that only stod a few millimeters in front of his organs of sight, when Trigon involuntarily paused.

Thanks to Dick, Raven has had enough time to cover up half of her fathers body unnoticed with her black magic.

"What the?! Daughter what are you doing " Out of sheer disbelief on the created bonds , which slowly spread up to the demons neck, Trigon let go of Nightwing.

Dick tried to catch himself, but he didn't fall very elegantly onto the floor. Sharply he pulled air into his lungs, as his hurt ribs and recently dislocated arm became a horrible sea of pain again.

"I won't let you destroy my home. Your selfish campaign is coming to an end today!" Raven gave everything she had to control her tyrannical father and she felt how his magic gradually lost its immortality.

"Don't bother yourself with these weak people daughter. You could be so much more by my side. Ruler of an entire universe." 

Trigon tried in vain to free himself and the magical bonds of his daughter closed more and more tightly around his weakened body until only his head was still uncovered by them.

Although Raven had currently the upper hand, the witch quickly realized that she couldn't handle him alone. As Trigon lost huge glims of his power, Raven was weakened as well. But when she felt that the demon was weak enough, point 3 of her plan came into effect: 

"Robin now!"

Out of nothing several discs flew at the unprotected head of Trigon. Dick knew exactly which discs Damian had selected and escaped with a not really painless jump towards Raven, away from Trigon. Every single one of the discs exploded right in the center of the demons face and wouldn't it be for the acrobats fast raction, he would have been grilled by the wall of fire behind him.

Nightwing looked exasperated at the blazing inferno when Robin emotionless landed beside him and Dick said:

"Sometimes I have the feeling that you want to make me into a Night-chickenwing ."

"I can not considerate for your safety when you stand in my trajectory."

Theatrical Grayson placed one of his hands above his heart: "Ouch, my poor feelings!"

"Feelings make you weak. Maybe you missed the job."

"Nope, you can't fool me anymore. I know you wont endanger me because you took a liking to me. Even if you don't like to admit it."

Dick grinned at Damian: "You know, someday I'll make you laught. It's like a challenge."

"-tt- Idiot"

Nightwing looked up to Raven:

"Raven, how's it going?"

Raven was still clearly strained by the use of her magic, when she replied: "It is still not enough. Keep attacking him!"

The smoke cleared so they had a clear view of their enemy again.

Nightwing asked Robin a question: "Do you have Batman's belt?"

The child grinned deliberately before he held up the arsenal he has stolen. The two brothers emptied the many different bags in order to really pound down anything weaponlike onto the writhing demon. Bombs, Batarings, everything which in some way could harm the deamon was thrown at him until they finally run out of the ammunition and Nightwing asked again:

"Raven, how about now?"

The sweat was pouring down her temples as she replied: "Just a little bit more. Hurry up! I can't keep it up for much longer."

Dick hurried to looked around for more weapons to throw or fire at Trigon. But Damian's patience had finally come to an end. The boy smoothly pulled his sword from his back and said: 

"Then I'll do it my way."

It took a moment, until the words reacht Richard brain: "Robin DON'T!"

Nightwing tried to stop the little one in time, but his hand only grabbed the smoky air from previous explosions .

Damian leapt towards Trigon. His sword raised, ready to put an end to it all. He would do it like so many times before. Fast, precise and painless.

Raven knew what was going to happen. In advance, she told both of them that her strength was not sufficient enought to completely hold down her father.

It happened the way it had to. Instead of splitting the demons head with his sword in half, Trigon managed to free his right arm and grabbed the sharp blade with his bare hand. The iron bursted under the power of Trigons muscles and fragmends fell to the dusty ground. Damian landed next to the demon. He stared in disbelief at his now destroyed Katana, which was always a loyal companion to him and layed now in broken piecec apon his feet. For a split second, the boy was so distracted that he noticed the rushing hand torwards him to late.

"ROBIN, GET AWAY FROM THERE!"

Nightwing screamed for the life of his little brother, unfortunately in vain. Trigon grabbed the Kid by its throat, pulled him to his eye level and began with a grimacing smile on the lips to strangle the helpless kicking child, as blood dripped down of the boy's scrag.

Raven focused all her powers on preventing the demon from exerting enough force to break the boy's fragile little neck.

"Nightwing do something! I can't hold it much longer. He's going to kill him! "

This didn't need to be sayed twice as the team leader was awnsering to himself:

"Well, then probably everything or nothing."

Dick removed his Escrima fighting sticks from the bracked on his back. Without wasting a second thought, Nightwing ran as fast as he could towards these two, jumped at his best onto Trigon and clung to the demon's torso with his legs.

"Let him go!" 

With all his strength, Grayson rammed both sticks into the demons right shoulder, which held his little brother captive and Trigon cried out in pain. Even though he didn't intend to let go, his body was just forced to release the child.

Moaning loudly and breathing for air, Damian fell to the ground.

Dick just saw the blood on his throat in shock. While the demon was still distracted, he allowed himself to ask in his rising panic:

"Robin are you okay? You're bleeding!"

Damian was still gasping: "Not mine ... his."

Relieved about that Dick exhaled. Apparently the katana had yet left some damage to Trigon's hand. But in the next second this relief was followed by pure horror.

"You maggot dare to...."

Trigon rammed his newly freed bloody claws into Nightwings Side and sank them at least 5 cm deep into the warm meat, right between his injured ribs, which were definitely broken by now.

"Ahhrg, Fuck!" 

Dick screaming full of pain was unmistakably. His body started to rebel because of that pain. His ears rustled, he saw black spots for a moment and he became sick. But Dick refused to let go. Instead, he unlocked a button on his fighting sticks and bluish flashes rallied around the the tip of them.

"Nightwing!" 

Robin who picked up a barrel lying on the ground, rushed torwards him to Help, but Dick ordered him to stay were he was: 

"Stay back!"

Damian paused, surprised by this order.

"Well asshole, let's see how you like this stuff."

As Dick's arms rose above him. He turned a little wheel with his thumbs which was attached to the side of the sticks and brought the electricity to its highest level. He knew that this intensity was very dangerous for normal people, but he couldn't take it into consideration at a moment like this. So he rammed the two contact points each in a weak spot above Trigon clavicle and unfortunately not only shocked the demon, but also himselfe. Their joint screams filled the square, but for Dick it wasn't just the electricity that was cruel. The electricety caused uncontrollable contractions of the muscles in Trigon's hand, which Craws were still between Dicks rips.

Nightwing felt every twitch, every part which was teared apart by these daggers. But even as his mind was slowly saying goodbye, he couldn't let go. Not yet.

Damian could only watch the whole spectacle from the side with horror on his face. Nightwing's cry of pain was pure torture. Even if he would never really admit it, Dick for him was an important part of his family. At the moment he really feared for the life of his big stepbrother:

"RAVEN! Isn't it enough now! "

Robin began to lose his composure and only a moment later, Raven's eyes closed, only to open up again as her demon form came to the surface: " Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

Trigon was now completely surrounded by Raven's magic. With controlled hand movements, she gradually pulled her father towards her red crystal. Bit by bit she sealed him in the little object as he sreamed in disbelieve, until there was nothing left of the demon in this world. Raven could finally breathe deeply.

With the disappearance of his opponents body, the electricity was now broken. Nightwing dropped like a doll, which threads were cut to the ground and Robin wasted no time, to check on him. He quickly knelt down next to his limp body:

"Nightwing, are you still alive?" 

To get a better picture of the injuries, Damian turned Dick to his back. He didn't liked what he saw. Not only did Nightwing had many scratches and cuts all over his body, the huge new wound on his left side was covered with a great amount of blood. Robin did the only thing that seemed right to him in a situation like this. He opened the buttons on his neck to remove his cape and pressed it firmly into the wound before starting to yell at his counterpart again:

"Nightwing, can you hear me?" 

But Dick didn't answer and Damien tried again louder: 

"RICHARD!"

And in fact, the older man's facial features slowly moved .

"Urg ... Little D?" 

Damian was so reliefed, when he heard the familiar voice and typical as Grayson was, he just couldn't shut up despite his weakened condition:

"Arg, Fuck! ... I swear I'm ready for a holiday. Tell Batman, I take the next two weeks off. Urg ... Shit, well make it three. He pays for the stay. I'm fed up whith crime for the time being. Are you doing good?"

Damians eyebrows contracted at so much stupitedy. Just bleeding to death and still shouting out jokes.

"We're fine. Raven sealed Trigon. You got caught up worse if your peanut brain still hasn't noticed it jet. We have to stop the bleeding." 

Nightwing grimaced as Damian put more pressure onto the wound. He was just glad that the adrenaline in his blood made him tolerate the pain somehow. He started to smile under the pain: "Arg, Shit! If you tell Alfred about all the swear words I've spoken here today i'll get on your nerves fort the next ten years. He pulls my ears out when he hears about that."

„Grayson, shut up."

"Especially because you were present. Aw man, I won't get rid of the cookie ban for years."

"GRAYSON!"

Dick paused when the vigorous exclamation came. He now looked up to his little brother, and saw how he bit onto his lip as pressed with trembeling hands further onto the wound. Nightwing sighed heavily. He raised his arm and ran his hand gently through Damian's black hair:

"He didn't damaged any organs and ateria. So the bleeding should soon stop."

Dick sat up slowly and gently pulled Damian's head against his chest. The boy, surprised by this action, heard the relaxed pounding of Nightwing's heart.

"I live, you hear? "

Damian allowed himself to stay there briefly to calm himself down. He was glad that they all made it out of the mission alive somehow, even if one or two scratches couldn't be prevented.

The boy cautiously moved away from the smiling larger one and kept his hands on the wound.

"You are an idiot, Grayson. "

The man in black smiled even more: "Tell me something new."

Raven started to call the monsters back and send them through the portal. Little by little all the Justice league members also woke up.

While Superman already started putting out all the fires to prevent bigger damage, Batman walked torwards Nightwing and Robin. Still holding onto his side, Dick stood up as the well-known "Report." which he loved so much, already hit him. 

Rational he described the situation to Bruce and noticed how Damian repeatedly threw concerned looks at him. Finally, he ended his remarks.

Batman nodded briefly: "Good job." 

He stepped closer and put his two sons each a hand on their shoulders: "I am proud of you two." 

With a Smile on his face the bat left both of them behind and walked towards the other Justice League members to inform them about the situation. Dick looked at Damian with wide eyes:

"Wow, under these circumstances I should rather ask for 4 weeks of luxury vacation. How about it. Don't you want to go with me? "

Damian only replied dryly: " I don't need things like vacations. You only get out of shape if you lie in the sun all day."

Nightwing sighed: "You really are like your father."

"Thank you."

"That wasn't a compliment."

Dick was about to turn around when someone came flying at him.

"Nightwing!"

He couldn't respond in time, as Starfire pulled him to the ground in an embrace.

With big puppy eyes, she looked down at him: "I was worried about you! Are you OK?"

"Not anymore." Damian commented this situation.

" Ouch , Ouch , Ouch! Gentle Star."

"Oh my god. You're bleeding!"

Dick gave her a cheeky smile: "It's half as bad as it looks. I know worse."

Damian just rolled his eyes at this scene. He turned his head away and inspected the area when he noticed something. One of the buildings started to lean dangerously toward some of the members. 

"Hey, watch out! The building collapses!" he screamed, before they would be crushed.

An adoring chain reaction was triggered. 

The heroes were just barely able to save themselves from under the building, but one of it's stones flew directly towards Raven, as she was sending the last monsters through the portal.

Because of the cloud of dust it wasn't seen rightaway, but Raven went down and at the moment she was probably the most important part in this situation.

"Star quick, look for Raven! "

Starfire immediately followed Dick's order and left the two brothers behind. While Nightwing was getting up again, the portal started to make strange noises.

Both Dick and Damian watched the flickering circle and sensed what would happen now.

It lost its stability.

"Star! Grab Raven and get out of there right now! The portal is collapsing! " 

Fortunately, Kori heard Dick's panicked reputation in time. She felt the suction from the gate gradually increasing. Starfire got herself and the dazed Raven to safety before the pull became too strong.

Batman odered everyone to hold themselfes tight onto something.

While members like Superman and Wonder Woman rammed their limbs into the ground to not be swept away, those without such powers were forced to shelter behind buildings.

Dick and Damian used their hooks to hold onto a nearby tree just in time.

The portal tugged at each of them more and more, until Robin had a hard time to withstnd this gread force. Since his body was so small and light, it did not take long for him to be lifted off his feet and only his grasping hook prevented him from being sucked in.

"Hold on Damian!" Dick also had trouble staying on the ground. His ribs hurt so bad and his injured arm wouldn't go through this torture much longer .

And then the unthinkable happened.

A sharp piece of metal streaked Damian's rope and cut it halfway through. Bit by bit it quickly tear futher apart as only seconds passed. Horror was written across the brothers faces. Dick knew that the rope wouldn't holt up much longer. He did the only thing that his mind came up with.

Just before Damian's rope broke, he released his own hook and let go. The steel mesh broke up just a millisecond after Nightwing flew past the boy and because of Robins low weight, he was sucked on stronger, so Dick could quickly catch him in his arms and they flew together torwads the howling portal.

Nightwing looked in the direction of the flickering swirl. A pipe perpendicular sticking out of the bottom will be crossing their path in an instant. He knew that these type of pipes reached deep into the ground. So he took his hook, indicated Damian to hold on to it and shot the claw at the metal cylinder.

Their flight came to an abrupt end a few meters before the gate would have swallowed them. The rope tensed and the metal bent under the sudden power that pulled on it. Dick cried out in pain.

He felt his side tear open like a meat rake was pulling on his body.

But he couldn't let go. Especially not because he wanted to protect Damian.

Meanwhile, Batman stood on the other side of the field and was prevented from doing anything stupid by his Justice League colleagues. He didn't lost his cool often, but when he saw his kids in danger of being dragged to hell he wouldn't just stand there watching them fight for their lives. He had to help them!

Batman screamed at his comrades to let him go. Fought back with all his strength but against the power of Cyborg, Aquaman and Superman he would never have had a chance. He could only do what was one of his biggest fears and pulled him back to Crime Ally. Watching without doing anything.

Dick and Damian noticed how the pull grew even stronger and the portal was on the verge of collapsing. It was incredibly loud around them. Dick tried to protect Damian at his best against flying parts. He could hold up better against them and wouldn't risk Robin to lose his grip.

But something else worried him much more. Because of their combined weight and the already bent pipe, it tended more and more. It wouldn't be for long and the hook will come off. Nightwing looked behind him to the flashing portal before closing his eyes in resignation.

He made a decision and looked sincerely smiling at Robin. Damians eyes were wide open as he knew, what was about to come. He was smart enough to read Dick's intentions.

"Don't you dare to let go Grayson. I will cut you to pieces if you do it! "

Because oft the loud noises Nightwing could only make up the words of the younger one, thanks to his lip reading abilities and had to laugh at this much affection.

The metal kept bending.

Dick pressed his forehead onto Damians : "I love you Kiddo."

He let go.

Robin tried to grab his arm again, but because of the blood covering their hands, Dick slipped right through and the familiar smiling face disappeared in a swirl of a thousand different lights lights.

Damian still hold on, as the portal tried to suck him in too. But it didn't took long, before it's streangth weakened.

A few moments later the portal collapsed and disappeared, leaving a strange silence behind. 

For a moment everyone just stared in the direction in which Nightwing disappeared. Batman was the first one to move. He pulled himself away from his teammates and immediately ran towards Damian who was sitting in the middle of dust, only looking shocked straight ahead.

Batman immediately asked: "Are you all right Robin?"

As if this was a trigger, the boy jumped off the ground screaming serious: "We must get Grayson out of there immediately! Where's Raven!"

Starfire and the still shaky Raven were just coming to the center of the crater. Energetic Batman trudged towards the witch, but just before he could reach them, Superman blocked his way. Clark was aware that Bruce was very tense right now and under these circumstances Raven would be questioned very rudely. A brief look duel followed until Bruce threw two words at the witch: "Open it!"

Raven held her left arm and looked down onto the floor. Batman was getting louder now: 

"I said OPEN IT!"

"I CAN'T!" 

Everyone looked shocked at Raven, who now whimpered: 

"I can't open the portal. You need a powerful demon on the other side to do so."

She sniffed briefly before continuing: 

"But my father killed all these powerful demons . He was the last and is no longer there. Nobody can open it. Even if you find a way, the time in this demension goes by a hundred times faster than on our erath. Until then, he's definitely ... I'm so sorry."

Raven burst into tears and Starfire hugged her as she mourned over her dear friend as well. The others felt this slap in the face and nobody was able to say a word.

Batman dropped to his knees. Dick was still alive. He was alive somewhere in that hellish dimension. Injured, weakened and alone. Surrounded by hundreds of monsters. And he wouldn't be able to help his eldest in time. 

Bruce clenched his fists and hit the floor hard as he screamed out his pain. Another part of his family was taken from him and he couldn't prevent it happening.

Damian stood apart from everyone, his back towards the rest. The boy had listened the hole time, but only slowly did the words reach his mind. He said nothing. He didn't do anything. Just stood there still.

His mind understood that there seemlingly could nothing be done to save Grayson. But still, he couldn't believe it.

Damian clutched his chest. He didn't know that feeling bulding up in him and he didn't like it. But he could now understand why he was always taught by his mother that this was a weakness. Because the fact was, that he had lost the person he had recognized as his brother and it hurt. It really hurt worse than anything else he knew uptil now.