Azreal

Nightwing is back to normal. Which is one less thing I have to worry about, also it makes Supergirl easier to deal with. Now I've decided To track Down Jean Paul Valley.

He's been running around disrupting My operations. First pretending to be me and stalking Vampirella, Second in messing with Cassandra, now he angers Wolverine and sets him against me. Which just made Azreal priority #1.

It's not like he's excactly hiding from me. In Fact he's been running around Gotham in that stupid armored Batman suit of his that makes it look as if I've had a bastard offspring with Optimius Prime.

He was trying to kill a bunch of gangsters. I make my my dramatic entrance.

"Azreal! It's time for a reckoning!" I kick him away from the criminals.

“Actually, I'd like you to leave my City. You're a has -been, I'm a lot better Batman than you'll ever be W.... Ungh" I hit him in the face with a Batarang. I'd rather he not blurt out my secret identity.

I always wonder if I shouldn't pull and Iron Man and wipe out my ID from the brains of the people that already know it. No if I do one thing that Stark did it wouldn't be long before I find my self Fighting with Superman and trying to lock him in a Phantom Zone Prison.

Valley shoots a grappling hook uses it to climb up a building, I do the same so glad that random celebrities don't pop out of the windows anymore, do you know how many criminals got away while Me , and Robin (Richard) were talking to Don Knotts? Grr.


When to get to the top of the building, I'm assailed by little batarangs from his gauntlets. They all are deflected by body armor but they make a little clanging noises . my ears are going to be ringing for weeks.

“Those aren't batarangs Valley this is a batarang. " I throw one that explodes cracking his armor open in a specific place. He comes at me with those and spikes (Ugh 90'S Costume designs.) Screaming “You’re not Batman! Batman doesn't tell jokes!"

Oh Sure Spider-Man tells them, and no one seems to care. But me or Superman tell them we're out of character we were using the snappy dialogue while Spider-man was just noticing girls. "

My apparent change in personality infuriates Valley. “Grayson! You're a pretender! What happened to Wayne?"

I dodge another claw and throw a control chip into his armor. Then I start acting like my self “It’s me Jean Paul."

I push a button on my belt and his armor freezes. “What how?" He shouts.

" You built your armor in my Cave, and you left the blueprints though I could have gotten what I needed from the security footage of you building it, Now what is this about?"

“You accepted Cassandra, and Jason back into your little family but you never even looked for me after I was "killed".”

I'm a little taken aback. “Jason was my adopted son, and Cassandra was drugged, also while I never officially adopted her I did take in Cassandra as my daughter. They are both teenagers. You're a grown man Valley; I thought if you vanished it was your choice. Well that And I haven't really accepted Jason back."

He laughs bitterly. “Please he's calling himself 'Red Robin.' It doesn't take a genius to know he's your mole in SHIELD."

That does sound like something I’d do... “So what is this, a bid for attention Valley? Act your age."

“The System it tells me to do things. I can't stop it.

So that's it the brainwashing he's had ever since he was a child is affecting him again .All this was some kind of call for help.

“I’ll contact some a deprogrammer I know, that is if you're really serious about coming back, but I want you mentally healthy."

He agreed he also agreed to never dress as Batman again. I paid for him a ticket to fly to a psychiatric hospital. Glad that's over now to enact my plan to capture the serial killer Rishou.