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Year 1- June

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-Monday June 3rd, Gotham City- 

The Outlaws were raiding a compound that belonged to one of Gotham’s biggest crime families. They were just supposed to intercept a drug shipment, but someone, they’d ended up in the middle of a shot out. 

There were more firemen there than Red Hood had anticipated, but he was confident his team could handle it. 

And that was how Jason found himself hiding behind a crate with his soulmate as they were actively being shot at. While Artemis was in the upper floor of the building, shooting several of the armed men down with her bow. 

Red Hood reloaded his guns, “Arrow, cover me!” He then jumped over the crate so he could pursue their targets.  

“On it” Roy replied as he got out one of his explosive arrows. 

“They’re getting away through the back!” Artemis yelled into their coms. He saw a group of the mafia associates entering a truck in the back of the building so they could escape.

Red Hood knocked a gun out of one of the goons before replying, “Artemis, follow them. Arrow and I will deal with these guys.”

“Got it” the Amazonian replied. She broke though the window on the second floor and used her lasso to grab onto the truck. Leaving the boys to deal with the warehouse by themselves. 

“I’m almost out of amo” Red Arrow yelled to his soulmate as he kept shooting at the armed men. They’d knocked out a good chunk of them,  but there were still a lot. 

“That’s okay. I’m going in” Red Hood was going to break through the barrier of armed men. He knew they were protracting drug shipments, if they couldn’t get the drugs might as well destroy them.

“You sure?” Red Arrow asked. He only had a few arrows left now, he wouldn’t be able to help much if Red Hood got himself into too much trouble.

Jason smirked under his helmet, “Trust me.”

Roy chuckled, “Always.” 

So Red Hood went in. He used the nearby boxes and crates as shields as he got closer and closer to the armed men. And Roy shot a smoke bomb arrow at them to give Jay more cover.

Roy couldn’t see much behind the fog. He wasn’t going to go in there without a gun, but he also wasn’t useless. He looked around the now empty part of the building for anything that could be of value to their mission and knowledge of the crime network. 

He make a turn but then swiftly stopped when he heard movement! He tightened his grip on his bow and strung his last arrow. 

He only took two stows before…..

 “Hold it right there!” A female voice yelled from his left side.

“Freeze!” A male voice came from the right.

Roy didn’t panic. Sure, these people were currently pointing guns at him, but he’d been in this situation dozens of times. He just raised his bow, “You guys with the criminals?” He asked sarcastically.

“No” the man answered. He had fluffy blonde hair and seemed to be trying his best to look intimidating.

Well that was interesting. Though not really a surprise. The mafia enforcers were all wearing tactical clothes with masks covering their lower faces, some even had bullet proof vests on. But these two were wearing dark sunglasses and suits, they looked more like spies from a cartoon than anything else. 

“So? What are you doing here?” Roy asked. 

“We’re here on a mission” the man replies again. 

“You’re not supposed to say that!” The female scolded her partner, scrunching her nose at him.

Red Arrow raised an eyebrow under his mask. He turned his body a little towards the man, “What mission? You’re not part of an hero group, you’re just a guy in a suit.” 

“We’re here for you” the lady spat, her fingers holding on tightly to the trigger in her gun. 

Roy wanted to roll his eyes. Nothing was ever new, just last year Red Hood got taken for random after someone drugged him with sleeping gas, but Batman had been able to save him in the end. “Fat chance lady.”

The man cleared his throat. He must have been new to this whole crime thing, Roy could tell he wasn’t ready for a hostage who talked back. “We can do this the easy way….” 

“You can try….”

“Use the gas!” The lady spoke up. 

Ah, so the guns being pointed at him contained a gas. Well that was easy. 

Roy moved his feet to knock the man next to him out of balance, leading to the man falling on his butt. Roy used that moment of distraction to take a step back and grab something from his own utility belt. 

The man yelped in surprise while the lady’s eyes widened. “What the…” 

Roy had put on a gas mask. 

“I live in Gotham bitch!” He said triumphantly. “You really think we all don’t carry gas masks?” Actually they carried a lot more than that, gas masks, clown spray, shark repellent….but that’s not relevant.

The woman took a step forward, chasing after him. She raised her gun again, “You’re fast, I’ll give you that.” 

“And you’re slow” he taunted. But he was screwed. He only had one arrow left, and Jason couldn’t hear him. Red Hood was still fighting the mobsters, Roy could hear the sounds of men grunting as Jay punched them and gun shots echoing again the walls. 

But Roy kept a strong facade. He had his gas mask on, and he was never one to back down from a fight. He’d go hand to hand combat if needed. So he stared down at the two people in front of him.

“Brat!” A another voice spoke. And a gun was fired from behind him.

“Ahhhh!” Roy yelled as a frozen shiver ran through his entire body. He felt something piercer his left shoulder, one of the few  parts of his body that were uncovered by his suit. He glanced over his shoulder and…..shit, he got hit by a tranquilizer. 

His vision began getting blurry and he stopped feeling part of his legs. Oh whatever the fuck they hit him with was strong. He fell on his knees, dropping his bow from his hands. 

“There, it wasn’t that hard” the third voice said. It was another man, though this one had curly black hair. 

“Thanks for waiting until he beat the shit out of me” the blonde one said bitterly as his partner helped him up. 

The “It was fun Riley….Now get him up” he gestured to Red Arrow on the floor. 

Roy was shaking, balancing on his hands and knees on the ground to prevent himself from collapsing. He was fighting whatever had just been injected into him, but he knew he was loosing. “Y-you won’t get a….away with this..” he rasped. He was fighting with all his might, he had to stay awake, he had to fight, couldn’t let them take him.

“We’ll see about that” the lady said as she kicked his bow farther from his grasp. “Riley, Gus bring him.”And so the two men grabbed onto Roy, one supporting him on each side. 

“Won’t be needing this….” Gus said as he ripped Red Arrow’s coms device from his left ear. He threw the device on the ground and then stomped on it.

And Roy was powerless to stop them….

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Red Hood had been distracted, he’d been fighting with the mafia goons. He’d shot most of them, not fatally of course, but enough to render them useless against him. The rest he’d manage to knock down with his bare hands. 

His knuckles were bloody, not his blood though. But it was worth it. He’d secured the drugs they came for, the mission was a success! “We got em Arrow…” he said in ecstasy. 

He was ready to go home, take a nice shower, maybe read a boy in the library. He’d have to ask Roy is they could…..”Red Arrow?” 

“Ahhhh!” He suddenly heard his soulmate’s voice yell in the distance. 

A chill ran down his spine. “Arrow!” He called out. He’d left Roy a little behind him in the warehouse, but that part of the perimeter was supposed to be empty since Artemis was chasing the other lot of goons. So Jason reloaded his gun with his last cartridge and ran in the direction he’d left… 

“Hood!” He heard Roy faintly yelling for him, but his voice sounded weak. 

“What happened?!” Red Hood pressed into his com, but Roy wasn’t answering. Roy never left him hanging, this was not a good sign. 

He kept running, looking frantically for Roy. He had to be fine. That scream wasn’t anything bad…Roy must have gotten scared by something. He had to be fine, no, he was fine! He had to be…

“Hold it criminal” a woman shouted at him, a gun in her hand aimed at him. 

Jason raised his in return. Until he saw the three people behind the woman. “What did you do to him?” His voice was murderous. Because two men were holding Roy up by his arms. His soulmate looked dazed, the way he did when they went out and Jay had to carry him home cause he drank too much.

“Nothing….” The lady smiled wicked, “….yet.”

Jason growled as he readied his finger on the trigger of his gun,”I’m gonna blast your brains open mother fucker!” How dare these people hurt Roy. Did they shoot him? Was that why he’d screamed? Why were they holding him, what did they want? Who even were these people? 

The lady turned her gun away from Red Hood, but pressed it right into Red Arrow’s temple. “If you fire, I fire.”

Jason’s heart skipped a beat, “Arrow!” No. No…no….no, he couldn’t do anything stupid. He’d heard Roy yell meaning these people had already hurt him somehow, he couldn’t do something to trigger retaliation. 

Poor Roy raised his head a little, though it clearly strained him to do so. He looked at his soulmate through his mask, “H-Hood don’t, I’ll be fine.” 

“Listen to your friend” the blonde man holding up Roy said.

The other man pulled out a communications device from his pocket, “Come pick us up…..” 

And then, the wall behind them exploded. A van pulled in though the whole in the wall. It was completely black, and didn’t even have a license plate number. 

The doors of the back of the van opened, reveling another two people wearing matching outfits to the ones holding Roy. 

“Arrow…” Red Hood shouted after him. He could try to jump them. But Roy wasn’t looking good, he didn’t even have his bow. What the fuck had they done to his bow? It had been a gift from Jason last Christmas, they better not have broken it. 

His gun was nearly out and Artemis was god knows where. And who knows what kind of weapons these people in suits had on them. He was outmatched. 

“Move criminal!” The lady continued to press the gun to Roy’s head as the two men pushed him inside of the van. 

Roy looked over his shoulder one last time before the people in suits began to close the doors to the back of the van. “I trust you Hood” he said to his soulmate. Because he trusted Jason with his life, his soul, everything. They were soulmates, they’d literally beat death to be together, they could make it out of anything, a kidnapping was nothing.

The people in suits shut the doors, locking them. And then the van speed away….

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“Artemis! Come in Artemis” Jason was panicking. 

After the van had left he’d gone to his bike. If he couldn’t fight them he could at least track them. But when he reached them he the tires on both his and Roy’s motorcycle had been popped. Those mother fuckers must have planned this! 

“Red Hood, what happened” Artemis’ voice answered at last. She’d stopped the escape attempt of the criminals. Guiding their truck into a lamp post, successfully crashing it before calling the GPD. 

“They took him!” Jason yelled in despair. 

“Took what?” She asked, her voice laced with confusion 

“Roy! They took Roy!” He said angrily. He’d checked on the tracker Roy had in his suit but of course it’d bee disabled. 

Artemis was quiet for a moment. “Who did?” Her voice got angrier. The Outlaws were very tight nit, they’d come together because none of them had anywhere to go. If you messed with one of them, you’d mess with all of them. 

“I’m not sure, but I need you here” he gritted his teeth, “We’re getting those motherfuckers!” He’d get his soulmate back. And it didn’t matter who he’d have to go through to get him back. 

“Don’t worry, we’ll find him” his teammate assured.

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-In the Van- 

“Is he under?” Riley asked his fellow agents. 

“Yep, won’t be awake for a long time” Gus chuckled as he looked at the state of Roy Harper. 

He was completely knocked out.m, but the agents had put a blindfold on him for good measure. They’d also tied his wrists together, same with his legs after they’d checked him for any trackers. They’d found two different trackers on his suit, one which Jason didn’t even know about, and swiftly turned them off. 

“Good” their female coworker said.

“Piper, get that call on, we were supposed to have reported back five minutes ago” Gus instructed. He’d been put in charge of this team, and he wanted to report that their first mission had been a success.

“Okay okay…” Piper walked over to a large monitor that was bolted to the wall of the van. She turned it on and pressed a few buttons to call their boss.

The call rang twice before their boss picked up. 

“Hello agents, report!” A displeased woman spoke as she picked up their call. And Piper turned on the video on the call.

Gus cleared his throat, “Ms Waller, we got him.”

Amanda Waller, current head of Project Cadmus appeared on their video screen. She was sitting in her office, elbows on her desk as her piercing eyes ran through the agents. She’d sent a small team on a special mission for Cadmus. She had wanted to send Task Force X on the mission, but other board members had fought against that. “What a surprise, I wasn’t sure if you’d succeed. But now that we’ve captured Red Hood, I’m sure Batman will….” 

The agents quietly stared at each other. 

“Red Hood, isn’t that the other guy?” Riley asked, his voice weaving.

Ms Waller froze, “Excuse me?”

Gus’ entire face paled. “We’ve captured Red Arrow as you asked.” He even walked over to the corner where they’d laid the unconscious Roy Harper and dragged the man into view. 

Ms Waller’s eyebrows shot up. “Red Arrow? I never told you to capture him?” 

“Yes you did” Gus mumbled under his breath. This could not be happening. It was his team’s first mission, they couldn’t have already failed. They’d done everything perfectly.  

“You said to capture Red Arrow” Riley chimed in. 

“No idiot…” Piper argued, “Ms Waller said to capture the Red Head.”

Ms Waller’s voice hardened, “No you imbeciles!” She shouted at them, making the agents go quiet. “I said to capture Red Hood. Hood, not Head, not Arrow, Hood! You’ve taken the wrong vigilante and now Batman and his team are certainly on their way.” She’s wanted to avoid this. 

Her plan was for them to quietly capture Red Hood, gather everything they needed, and then return him. But now things were more complicated. The team took the wrong person.

“So do we….leave him?” Riley voiced his thoughts.

“What do you we do?” Piper asked her boss. 

Ms Waller sighed heavily, “Is the extraction material ready?” 

“Yes mam” the agents answered in unison. 

Amanda thought for a moment. Well they had at least captured someone, and so many things were already in motion. “I suppose we will have to change our plans. It will derail the operation by several months, but I can’t let all the money we’ve already poured into this go to waste.” 

“We are waiting for instruction mam” Gus said.

Ms Waller took a large inhale, “Very well, extract what we need from Red Arrow. Keep him sedated but don’t harm him. Once you’re done, take him to the retrieval point where his team will find him.”

“Yes mam” they answered again. 

“And try not to mess up again” their boss said in a threatening tone. “I knew I should have gotten Task Force X squad for this” she mumbled under her breath before cutting the call. 

“Okay agents, let’s take what we need” Gus said excitedly as the call ended. 

Piper fetched a briefcase they’d brought with all the materials they’d need to take all the material Ms Waller needed. 

Gus grinned menacingly at the passed out Red Arrow, “You are going to do something to help humanity.” And they began the procedure. 

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“Dick, Dick can you hear me?” Jason had been trying to reach anyone who could help him right now. He had to wait for Artemis to fly him out of the warehouse, he only had a few bullets, and no way to track Roy. He was thoroughly fucked! 

“Littlewing? What’s up?” Dick was panting when he finally responded. 

“I need your help? Where’s B?” Red Hood asked frantically. 

Dick was breathing heavily, “We can’t. Everything went to shit today.” 

“What?” That wasn’t possible. Had those people also sabotaged Dick and B’s mission? Had their identities been compromised? Were they all in danger?

Because today. Batman and Nightwing were going on a mission together. Because Joker had apparently teamed up with one of the rogues from Blüdhaven and they were signing some kind of deal today. Jason hadn’t paid much attention to their briefing. So Batman, Nightwing, Superboy, and Batgirl had all gone to Blüdhaven for the day. And they’d left Tim to handle things at Wayne Enterprises, he was leading a team event, hence why Jason knew he could call Tim for help.

“They knew we were coming. No clue how, but they knew. We got ambushed!” Nightwing rasped. 

“You okay?” He’d already lost Roy today, he couldn’t handle knowing someone else got hurt. Especially with Joker involved. He’d promised Bruce he’d stop killing, but if that motherfucker did anything to Nightwing he’d kill the clown with his own hands. 

“Joker shot Batgirl on the back” Nightwing yelled. “Superboy is taking her to the hospital. B and I are cleaning up the mess right now.” 

Well….shit. 

“Roy got kidnapped!” 

“What?”

“I have to find him” well this was great, today had to be their lucky day. He had no idea how badly injured Barbara was, he’d have to go visit her later. But at least they knew where she was, Conner would easily fly her to a hospital. Unlike Roy, the had no clue where Roy was. 

“We’re kinda busy here. Sorry Hood, I’ll get back when we’re done here” Nightwing then got off the call.

Jason’s breathing grew heavier, he took off his helmet so he could breathe. “Shit, shit, shit!” He pulled at his hair, this couldn’t be happening, it simply couldn’t. 

“Did you get a plate number? Any leads?” Artemis asked as she finally got to him. 

“This street had no cameras” he said in frustration. It had been perfect for their mission, no cameras, no video files. But right now, it was the worse thing ever. 

“His tracker?” 

“They turned it off….Maybe I shouldn’t have laughed at Bruce’s suggestion for body implants on everyone” Jason laughed bitterly. He’d made fun of Bruce for being so paranoid. But right now, a tracker beneath the skin that couldn’t be turned off was starting to sound pretty good.

“Any idea who took him?” The Amazonian continued to question.

“They weren’t dressed like mob agents” they were wearing suits. What king of kidnappers takes someone while wearing a three piece suit? “They knew we’d be here? They came with the intent to take Red Arrow?”

“But why?” Artemis questioned. 

Jason wished he knew. Why would someone take Roy. He wasn’t a meta, he had no superpowers, he was just a guy who was amazing with weapons. He only knew one thing, “We have to find him.”

With a good chunk of the team in Blüdhaven, they still had Superman. But Superman was busy too. A giant Kaiju or whatever was attacking Metropolis, so Superman had flown over to help Supergirl handle the situation.

The Titans were in an off world mission led by Starfire, which Dick had been against since Kori is pregnant, but it’s not like he could win an argument against his wife. Donna and Cassie were currently in their home island. 

So there was only one option of who they could turn to. Jason was already formulation a plan in his head, “I got it.” He was gonna make it hurt, and he was gonna enjoy it.

Artemis grinned at seeing Jason’s determined face. “What’s the plan?”

“I’ll tell you on the way. Now fly us home!” Screw the motorcycle! Bruce could pay for a new one, he had a soulmate to save. 

So Artemis picked him up and flew them to Wayne Manor. 

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-At Gotham Academy-

Damian and Jonathan were currently enjoying their recess. 

Damian was sitting in a bench in the corner of the courtyard. He preferred to sit with his sketchbook rather than play silly games with the other kids. Though it was mostly because he couldn’t show off his superior abilities in front of his civilian classmates. It had been bad enough when he’d taken down five kids in dodgeball with a single throw off the ball, Bruce had gotten called to the school that day. So he enjoyed engaging in such games, but only did so with his siblings and other young heroes. 

Jonathan on the other hand enjoyed playing with the other kids. He had to focus a lot on keeping his powers in check, which got hard at times, but in his opinion, it was worth it. 

But today was different. 

Jonathan couldn’t focus on the game. He was still learning to fully control his powers, in his defense he wasn’t even a year old yet. One such power was super hearing. 

He’d memorized the heart beats of everyone in the family, but he could hear so much more than that. First, he could always hear the hear beats of everyone around him. It was good thing that Damian was close to him most of the time, he liked listening to Damian’s heart beat as a grounding sound. He could hear things happening in the class and even the city next door.

And today was worse. He could hear the screams of people in Metropolis dealing with the Kaiju attack. He heart their friend Barbara scream along with the sound of gunshots. He heard Jason’s heart beat spiking. And worse, Roy’s heart beat had dropped suddenly. He couldn’t focus on the game of soccer the other kids were playing. 

“Damian!” He whispered as he power walked to his friend. He was fidgeting with the friendship bracelet on his wrist, specifically the green, black, and red one he’d made for his friendship with Damian. 

“Damian!” He said again.

Damian noticed his friend approaching and set down his sketchbook. “What is it Jonathan?”

Jon sat down dramatically on the bench next to his best friend,“Something’s wrong.”

“What is it?” Damian scooted a little closer to his friend.

Jon kept his hands on his lap, “I’m not sure. But I have a bad feeling, I’m hearing a lot….I can’t explain.” He didn’t know for sure what was happening, but it couldn’t be good.

Damian reached out and held one of Jon’s hands, “If something happened we would be informed.” He always had an emergency com with him, if some huge threat appeared, they’d certainly be informed. 

Jonathan exhaled, “Yeah, I guess you’re right.”

Damian let go of his hands, “Relax Jonathan.” He then picked his sketchbook back up and went back to drawing. 

While Jonathan sagged against the bench they were sitting on, “Okay.” But he could still hear everything, the heart beats, the fun shots, it was all too loud. 

So he took in deep breaths and tried to focus on Damian’s heart beat. It was steady, oddly comforting. He then turned his head to look at what Damian was drawing. It was an action scene, not of the Batfamily of course, but rather a generic fighting scene between two subjects. And of course one of them carried an obligatory katana. “Nice sketch.”

Damian hummed in acknowledgment, “Thank you.” Then kept drawing.

So they sat like that, with Damian drawing and Jonathan focusing on the sounds of Damian’s heart and his pencil gliding against the paper. 

That was. Until a teacher came looking for them. “Excuse me. Damian, Jonathan.” 

They both looked at to the teacher, “Yes?” 

“Damian your brother is here to pick you up” she informed them. 

The school, granted, had no clue who Jonathan truly was. Damian was registered as Bruce Wayne’s son, but Jon was registered under Clark Kent’s name. No one questioned that the two boys always arrived and left together. When Bruce Wayne funded half the school with his donations, turning a blind eye to anything remotely strange was pretty easy. 

“It’s not the end of the day yet” Jonathan protested.

The teacher smiled at him, “You’re getting picked up early sweetie.”

And Damian was already moving, he’d closed his sketchbook and practically jumped off the bench. “Jonathan forget what I said, something is wrong” he whispered, knowing Jon would easily hear him. 

Jonathan’s face paled, “Oh Rao.” 

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-Back in the Van-

Roy was staring to come back to, he couldn’t open his eyes, his eyelids were very heavy. But he could heard some buzzing sounds around him. His entire body felt limp, but he couldn’t tell someone was currently holding him down. 

“Uhhh” Roy moaned as he tried to move his body.

“He’s coming back” Piper told her teammates. 

The agents were currently collecting samples from Red Arrow to be given to Amanda Waller and her scientists. They’d taken a blood and several DNA samples. Right now, they were taking the last blood vile.

“It’s fine, this is the last one anyway “ Gus brushed off her concerns as he pulled the needle out of Roy’s arm.

“Where are we gonna leave him?” Riley asked. He was holding  tabled with the map of Gotham City on it.

“The same place as the original plan” Gus answered as he closed the lid of the blood vile and placed it inside of a lead suitcase along with all the other samples.

“Got it” Riley cheered and set a course on the van’s GPS.

“Did you get the whole tube?” Piper asked as Gus sealed the lead case with a lock pad. 

“Of course I did.” 

Roy could make some of the words they were saying. He had no clue who these people were, but they’d taken a sample from him? This couldn’t be good. And now they were gonna leave him somewhere? Where would they leave him drugged out like this? 

He hoped Jason came for their asses. He’d love to watch his boyfriend beat them up for this. 

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-Outside Gotham Academy- 

“Todd what are you doing here?” Damian asked as he and Jonathan were walked to the front entrance of the school. 

Jason had come to get them, the only ones available to help right now were Superboy and Robin. “Can’t I come pick you up early?” He spoke flatly, hoping Damian would catch on to his tone. 

“Hi Artemis” Jonathan unfortunately did not catch to Jason’s tone. He smiled and waved to the red head who’s also come pick them up. 

“Hey kid” she waved back. 

“Have a good day boys” Jon and Damian’s teacher waved goodbye as they walked out the school doors. 

“Thank you” the boys said in unison.

“Yeah let’s go, dad needed me to get you” Jason said with a fake smile. He rushed them over to the black car he’d taken from Bruce’s collection to come pick the boys up.

“What’s wrong?” Jon asked as Jason opened the back door for them to get in the car.

“Get in the car.” 

Damian’s expression instantly hardened. The last time someone had come to pick him up early Batman had been mission for over ten hours without checking in and they had to travel all the way to Tibet to find him…..don’t ask. “What is the problem?” 

Artemis got into the front passenger seat and picked up two articles of clothing that were tucked away under the seat, “Put these on” she threw the clothes at them. It was their hero suit, this meant business. 

“What happened?” Jon hopped into the car and picked up his Superboy hoodie. He wore jeans for school anyway, so all the had to do was change his shirt and remove his glasses. 

Damian got into quietly and shut the door behind him. He saw his Robin boots on the floor of the car, wrapped inside of his cape. It was a good thing that all the windows in Bruce’s cars were tinted.

Jason got in the drivers seat and turned the engine on. “Roy got kidnapped” he ripped the bandaid off.

“What?” Jon stopped midway through removing his school shirt. All the kids had seen each other in underwear before, they all changed in the Batcave and had to perform emergency medical care on each other, seeing a team member shirtless was nothing.

“How did Harper get kidnapped?” Damian asked as he put on his boots. 

“I’m not sure, but everyone else is busy so I need your help to find him” Jay looked at Jon thought the rear view mirror. 

Jon’s glasses literally feel off his face, “Me?” Jason wanted him to track down a kidnapping victim? He could hear the way Jason’s own heart was pounding rapidly in his chest, it honestly seemed like it was about to burst from his rib cage. Jonathan didn’t think he should be driving under such conditions.

“Yes you” Jason said in a ‘duh’ tone. “Can’t you track him?” 

Jon took his own cape from the floor and fumbled to strap it into place, “I….I don’t know how to do that!” His tracking skills were still in the words. Conner had been focusing more on his strength, heat vision, and freeze breath training right now. And Damian was teaching him to fight like a normal human being, oh and building up his Kryptonite immunity. 

“You better figure it out kid” Jason’s knuckles began to turn white from how hard he gripped the steering wheel. 

“Cmon kid, just try” Artemis encouraged. She had put on a long skirt and a zip up hoodie to come pick the boys up, and was now also removing them, revealing her shirt underneath. It was no wonder why Superman chose to keep his suit beneath his everyday clothes, it made moving around the city much easier.

“You can do it Jon” Damian assured him. The youngest Wayne was midway through applying special glue to his domino mask before placing it on his face. 

Jon gulped, time to be Superman. He closed his eyes and tried to focus on Roy’s heart beat. It was one of the beats he’d memorized, so finding it wasn’t that hard. But it didn’t sound the same as it normally did, “His heartbeat is off….”

Jason took a sharp turn that made everyone slam into the right side of the car, “What does that fucking mean?” Was Roy suffering? Were they gonna kill him? He’d kill those bastards if they hurt a single hair on Roy’s hair. 

Jon panicked, “It’s just….slower than usual. That’s usually happens when you’re asleep.” Like Damian’s, it was strong and steady throughout the day, but it was a little slower during the night. 

“They drugged him” Jason explained. They must have given him some type of sleeping drug inside that black van.

“But he’s alive” Artemis tried to remind him of the positive. She knew Jason could be a little…..unstable, to put it nicely. He’d nearly killed a man who once broke Nightwing’s arm, he didn’t take kindly to anyone hurting the people he loved the most.

“Good.”

“Where is the sound coming from Jon?” Damian asked. 

Jon tried to pin point the location. It seemed to be coming from….behind them? “I-I think it’s north? No south? Wait….which direction is north?” 

Jason slammed his face against the wheel, “Uhh this is hopeless.” 

Artemis clicked her tongue. With Jay compromised it looks like she’d have to take charge of this mission. And she got an idea, “Can I try something?”

“Knock yourself out” Jason said in defeat. He didn’t know what else he could do, maybe Conner was already available to come help them?

Artemis started pressing several buttons on the car’s dashboard, looking for one specific one. “What are you doing?” Jason asked as she suddenly opened the car’s sun roof. 

Artemis turned in her seat, “Jon, stick your head up there” she pointed to the sun roof. 

The young Kryptonian tilted his head, “W-What?”

“You have super vision right?” She waited for him to nod. “Stick your head up there and try looking for Roy.” 

Jon swallowed, well, he could try. He got up on the back seat and carefully stuck his head out. The Gotham air hit him instantly, Rao he hated the smell of this city, but he couldn’t think about that right now, he had a man to find. He focused as hard as he could on Roy’s heart beat again. 

The sound wasactually coming from the south. He focused his vision as much as he could, looked past buildings and houses, until he found the source!

Roy’s heart beat was near somewhere with water, he could hear a stream moving. And he saw a building, a warehouse maybe? And he saw a car, a black van specifically. And beyond that….were the Gotham docks.

“Jason they’re near the docks! The ones that lead to Blüdhaven!” Jon informed him. 

He didn’t need to be told twice. “Strap on!” Jason shouted. Jon got back down and quickly put his seat belt on, Jason was about to break dozens of traffic laws. 

“Hang in there Roy, I’m coming” Jason vowed under his breath, and hit his foot on the gas. 

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-Somewhere?? Roy had no idea- 

The agents had gotten everything they needed and had now brought Roy to a discrete location where they could leave him. And Ms Waller had left clear instructions.

1- Take him to their old warehouse

2- Strap him somewhere to prevent him from following them 

3- Leave immediately and take the samples to her 

And so, the agents had brought out a chain and tied Roy to a structural pole of the building.

“Uhh let me go!” Roy said in a groggy voice. His legs still felt like jelly, that chain holding him to the pole was the only thing keeping him up.

“Don’t worry, you’ll be fine” Gus assured as he made sure Roy was strapped in. He knew Red Arrow would never be able to follow them, the man could barely keep his eyes open, but they’d already messed up today, he couldn’t afford more mistakes. 

Roy gritted his teeth, “You’re so gonna regret this.” 

Gus hummed, “Sure….” He then started walking away, “…goodbye.”

The agents had left their van a block away from the old warehouse where they’d left Roy, the vigilante had been dragged the entire way. The agents were all armed, Ms Waller had warned that they could be intercepted by Batman and his team of Gotham vigilantes. 

Piper and Riley were waiting by the van, along with two more agents. They were having a little smoke break and celebrating the success of their first mission. Gus was only a few feet away from the open van….but then a bullet flew inches from his face.

“I’m back motherfuckers!” Red Hood yelled. He was standing a yard away, two guns in hand and blood in his eyes. 

Jason had parked Bruce’s car three blocks away and the group had jumped rooftops until they found the van. Jason had been the only one to jump down to the ground to announce his presence. He recognized the three agents who’d taken Roy, he was gonna make them suffer, and he was gonna enjoy it!

Gus fell to the ground as another shot was fired at him, “That’s our queue!” Riley ditched his cigarette and pulled out his gun, he stood over Gus and fired back at Red Hood. 

“Where is he?” Red Hood demanded as he kept firing. He swirled out of the way as more of the agents pulled out their own weapons, this was about to be a shootout. 

”I have no idea what you’re taking about” Gus spat as he got off the ground.

Red Hood growled under his helmet. He quickly spoke into his com, “Artemis, take the van.”

“Got it” the Amazon said from above. She was in a nearby rooftop, lasso in hand. 

“Robin, Superboy find Arrow” that was the priority anyway. 

“On it” Jon said. 

“Let’s go” Damian echoed. 

Superboy was flying over the area, using his xray vision to find Roy Harper inside one of the buildings. And Robin was clinging onto him as they flew together.

Three of the agents jumped into the back of the van, hoping to get to get away as Red Hood got closer. That was when Artemis jumped down to the ground. 

One agent got in the drivers seat and turned the engine on, he pressed his foot on the gas, but the van didn’t get very far. Because Artemis punched the front of the van, causing a dent on the front bumper. The Amazonian then started twirling her lasso to deflect several bullets being fired at her. 

“What did you do to him?” Red Hood got close enough to land a punch on Riley. He punched the agent in the ribs. 

“C-Classified” the agent coughed out as the wind was knocked out of him. 

Red Hood ignored him, instead grabbing onto the collar of Gus’ suit and pressing the man against a wall, “Who do you work for?” 

“Classified” Gus spat…..Red Hood responded by breaking his nose. 

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“He’s over here, I can hear him” Jon said as he landed at an abandoned warehouse. Him and Damian quickly got to work looking for Roy. 

“There!” Robin pointed to a slumped figure against a pole.

Jon flew over to the vigilante in an instant. “Red Arrow!” He looked over Roy’s injuries. One of his arms had a little bandaid, from where the agents had poked needles into him. And right now, his arms were a little red from the chain holding him up. 

Roy heard the sound of familiar voices. “B-boys?” He tried raising his hand even though it hurt like a bitch, he would never complain about a hangover ever again.

“What happened to you?” Robin asked as he ran over after Jonathan.

“H-help me” was all Roy could say.

Robin took one look at the chains holding him up, “They chained him. Jon cut him out.” 

Jon nodded instantly, “Step back…..” which Damian did. His eyes turned red and a little red laser cut through the chain holding up Roy. Ha, his laser vision training paid off! 

“Uhhh” Roy’s entire body slumped forward.

Damian moved in front of Roy to try to hold him up. But it ended with both of them falling onto the floor, Damian on his back with Roy on top of him. “Get off me!” The young Robin barked. 

Jon scanned Roy’s body, “I don’t think he can.” Roy didn’t appear to have broken anything, but his body was definitely unwell. 

“What have they done to him?” Damian asked as he tried to get out from under Roy.

“J-J…Jay” Roy mumbled under his breath. His mind was starting to catch up with everything that was happening.

If Superboy and Robin were here it meant his friends had come for him! He was saved! Jason must have come, he wanted to see Jason, had to tell Jay he was okay.

“He is out of it” Damian concluded. 

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The fight had escalated. Someone had landed a shot that scrapped Jason’s leg but he didn’t back down. He’d broken Gus’ nose and bent Riley’s wrist at an awkward angle. Call it aggressive interrogations. 

His knuckled were bleeding, again, though this time some of the blood was his. But he wouldn’t stop until he had a clear answer. He was currently in a fist fight with Gus, until he heard an oh so familiar voice call out to him. 

“Red Hood!” It was undeniably Roy’s voice, though clearly pained. 

Red Hood fumbled for a moment, and the agent used this to knock the crime lord out of balance. Red Hood feels backwards onto the ground and Gus used that meant to run after the van. 

Piper was holding out her hand from the back of the van, stretching it out for him. Gus thrust forward and grabbed her hand, using it as leverage to get into the man. “Move move!” He shouted to his team, they had to get out of here. 

Artemis was holding down the van. But she had to abandon position when she saw another one of the agents pull out a gun and aiming it at Red Hood, who was still on the ground. 

“Hood!” She moved with extra speed, sending both her and Jason thumbing out of the lien of fire. The agents decided to give up, closing the back doors to the van and speeding away. 

“You okay?” The Amazonian asked after a few moments of panting. 

“I’m fine” Red Hood sat up. He felt a little pain in his ribs but he’d have to look at that later. He stared at the speeding van, getting away. “I’ll get you later assholes!”

“Red Hood! Get in here!” They then heard Robin yell from inside the warehouse building. 

Red Hood got up and ran! He’d probably never ran so fast in his life, fulled by the need to know that his soulmate was okay. He took off his helmet, throwing it on the ground as he ran. 

When he got there, the sight nearly broke him. 

Roy was alive, but he was pale and wobbling. Superboy and Robin were supporting him on either side 

Jason felt little tears forming in his eyes, relief, joy, love, all at once.“Roy!” 

Roy’s eye snapped to his soulmate, “Jason!” he tried walking over to him but failed miserably, Jon and Damian had to keep him steady.  “Y-You came” he sighed in relief, thank fuck, Jason could take him home, he really wanted a shower  right now…oh no some food! Alfred’s food would go great right now.

Jason ran over in a heartbeat, he hugged Roy’s middle, allowing for the two younger boys to release him. “I got you….you’re okay.”

Roy felt little droplets of water falling on his shoulder, was Jason crying? He knew Jay had issues, he often had to help him through panic attacks, he couldn’t even imagine how worried Jay had been today. But he came, covered in sweat and blood that Roy only hoped wasn’t hit. Jason was his knight in bloody armor that had come to rescue him. 

Jason then picked Roy up in a bride carry, “Let’s go home.” And he started walking them back to the car. Those bastards had gotten away, but at least Roy seemed okay. 

“I’ll drive” Robin said as him and Jon followed after Red Hood. 

“Not gonna happen Damian” Artemis deadpanned. She’s be driving them back to Wayne Manor, oh and she was eating Alfred’s food too! She deserved it.

“Tt. Fine” Robin sulked.

And so Artemis got behind the wheel, Damian sitting on her passenger seat, with Jon, Jay, and Roy on the backseat. Though Roy was still curled up on Jason’s lap while Jonathan was pressing himself onto the wall to give them more room. Jason removed both his and Roy’s masks, they were safe now, they were together again.

Roy’s heart was beating  a little faster now, it was still steady, but stronger. And Jason’s own heart had stabilized too, it was still above average, undoubtedly from the adrenaline of the fight, but it was less so than before. 

Roy got comfy on Jason’s lap, his head resting comfortably against his boyfriend’s neck. “Hey Jay?” He whispered. 

Jason’s grip tightened a little, “What?” Was Roy in pain? Was he hurt? his eyes ran over Roy’s frame frantically. They’d run tests once they got to the medbay in the Batcave. 

Roy smiled, a tilted smile like the tie he’d gotten his wisdom tooth removed and was still high on anesthesia. The read head pulled his head up so he could look his soulmate in the eyes, “Thanks for coming to get me…..”

Jason’s eyes softened, “I’ll always come for you.”

Roy accepted the answer and tucked his head back into Jason, “I love you Jay.”

Jason laid his head against Roy’s messy and sweaty red hair, “I love you too Roy.”

Damian grunted in the front seat while Artemis and Jon tried to contain their giggles. That made Jason realize they did in fact have an audience right now. 

“You’re blushing” Roy teased him with a giggle. 

Jason scoffed, though he was indeed blushing a little. “Go to sleep.” 

Roy laughed and kissed the bottom of Jason’s jaw, “Okay….” And he fell asleep as the car drove them back home.