Batman/Open || No Place Like Home

[nightwing]

After a few minutes, Dick Grayson arrived at the Wayne Manor as he pulled up to the front gate before finding a park. He got out of the car with his bags as he looked at the mansion, still looking good as it has always been since Nightwing first lived in it as a child. He had so many memories growing up, even remembering being Robin, The Boy Wonder for the first time. That was when it all started for Dick Grayson as alongside Batman, they went out every night and protected Gotham. He never regretted being Robin because it made him change his view on life. After his parents died, he had nothing but Bruce took him under his wing and taught him the best. As time moved on, Dick became Nightwing, his own hero and went out on his own to be the best. Though, he never forger all he was shown thanks to Bruce. If it wasn’t for him, then Dick would be nothing but lonely child in a foster home with adults and kids, having a boring life.

Dick took a deep breath before walking up to the Wayne Manor. Up the steps he went and rang the doorbell, Dick waited for someone to answer the door. And it wasn’t a surprise who answered it, it was Alfred. “Master Grayson!” said Alfred as Dick could see the happiness in his eyes. “My goodness, it’s so wonderful to see that you’re alive!” said Alfred as Dick hugged the butler tight. “And it’s good to see you too Alfred. I’m surprised you’re still here…well maybe not” Dick said as he chuckled a bit before letting go. “Is Bruce here?” he asked the long time butler of the Wayne Manor. “Actually he is. I must say he was worried and concerned about your safety during the time of the clone invasion. But he’ll be delighted and excited of your return come on in” Alfred said as Dick came inside and waited until Alfred came back. He said to Dick where Bruce was, in his study room. Dick thanked Alfred before walking in the study room, seeing his mentor and father figure…Bruce Wayne aka The Batman.

“Long time no see Bruce…it feels good to be back”

[batman]

Wayne manor home to Bruce Wayne and now a number of other residents of Gotham. He couldn’t just said by and let these people die and he had space so he brought them here to live. The place was getting pretty full inside as well as out there were tents and RV’s all over the place along with a garden along with a goat and some chicken’s and a cow or two. For milk, eggs and cheese to go with the veggies along with whatever else could be gotten from the stores within the city. Bruce had wondered where the animals had come from he couldn’t remember saving them or finding them for that matter.

“I wasn’t aware you were coming back.” Bruce said looking up from a book he had been reading when he heard someone was coming down the hall he had thought it was one of the new residents or Alfred but realized the foot steps where to light and they could only belong to Dick. He marked his place before closing the book “I thought you would be with the Titan’s or the Outsider’s out living your own life and not living in my shadow.” he wasn’t angry at Dick or anything but that was what the young boy had told him years ago when he had first became Nightwing.

[nightwing]

The Batman was looking good, he wasn‘t getting any gray hairs from what Dick see‘s. He‘s also been holding up well and not a wreck of himself. He could even hear or sense things such as a person or anyone else. It was almost like Batman was a powerful fighter. Bruce never cried or had a fit, he always was cool, calm and collected in any situation and Dick knew that. It amazed Nightwing how Bruce could get through anything without feeling the pain. Though Bruce was never afraid of anything, including a doomsday clone. Batman would never give up and quit. Grayson even knew that one day when Bruce gets older, he’ll keep on doing this job as a superhero. He heard Bruce mention the words that Grayson told him when Dick became Nightwing. He nodded his head before speaking. “I couldn’t be able to find any members of the Titans nor the outsiders. And Bludhaven was no more thanks to the clones, they literally destroyed the place…so I decided to come back here….home….where it all started for me” Dick told Bruce and he couldn’t just stay in the rubble or anyplace, he had to move on and go back to Gotham.

“That’s why I decided to come back to Wayne Manor. Though….I’m still Nightwing and no longer Robin, so that won’t change. But I can tell that things have been hard on Gotham since the doomsday clones attacked the city, it hasn‘t been the same” he said to Bruce. Nightwing can think back to his first arrival back to Gotham, seeing the damage and it because it became so much difficult to see it. Dick can even remember seeing bodies broken, bloodied, not even moving. Disturbing was a good word since everything about the scenery can make you crawl out your skin. What was government thinking about creating more of these monsters? Heroes like Batman, Dick, Superman, Wonder Woman, they weren’t the problem. It was the criminals fault on this one Dick can probably bet there crying and whining from government officials. “So, anyway, how have things been here? Any plans on taking down the doomsday clones?", he said and asked of Bruce . ”Is there a chance to get rid of them and the focus on rebuilding Gotham?”, he asked Bruce as he waited.