YOUNG JUSTICE Watches: The Dark Knight Returns

I DO NOT OWN BATMAN, YOUNG JUSTICE, JUSTICE LEAGUE, THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY, IT IS ALL OWNED BY DC COMICS AND IT'S RIGHTFUL CREATORS SO PLEASE DO NOT SUE ME.

The League and Team continued to watch the monitor as it showed the future. So far they watched the retired life of Bruce Wayne before they witnessed him regaining his determination to become the Batman again.

A woman ran down a sidewalk tiredly, carrying groceries as it rained. She was using a newspaper as cover from the rain as she ran before her foot as caught in a deep puddle.

"Come in here where it's warm, Mommy." A man spoke from the shadows as he reached out to the woman.

"Ok, something's wrong with this guy." Kid Flash said as he ate popcorn.

"You think." Superboy snorted.

"No please." she begged dropping her bag as he dragged her into the shadows.

"I need you, Mommy. Talk soft and make me feel safe." He said as he pulled out a knife. But suddenly a hand smashed through the glass behind him and grabbed the maniac away screaming into the darkness with nothing but a trail of blood left. The woman looked shocked by this.

"Ah the smell of criminals being beaten." Nightwing joked.

"You seem more... brutal though." Wonder Woman spoke to Batman. The Dark Knight narrowed his eyes at that as he looked at the trail of blood.

Lighting erupted in the skies of Gotham as a Taxi pulled to the curve. The door opened and a dark skinned man wearing white pushed a woman roughly into the car. "Get your ass in the car. We're taking a ride."

Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl's eyes narrowed at this, this is they type of man they and many amazons despised the most.

"Please, Silk. Not the face." the woman begged sobbing.

Silk just looked on. "Your paining me, Joannie. You're messing with my livelihood." he pulls out a knife.

"Hey man," the taxi driver spoke. "Take it somewhere else, I just had the seats cleaned."

"Really, your worried about your seats?" Robin spoke with an eyebrow raised in the air at the taxi driver's stupid complaint.

"Only in Gotham." Batgirl replied to him and caused the members of the batfamily besides Batman to nod in agreement.

"Shut your hairy face and drive." Silk said giving the driver a lot of money.

"Dog eat dog world, I guess." the driver said looking at the money as Joannie screamed in pain.

"And here I thought their was one decent person left." Tigress glared. Kid Flash continued to eat his popcorn, hey this future was better than the one he came from so far.

"Look Joannie, you went and grew a new nostril." Silk said before a loud thud was heard and the car shook.

"The hell was that?" the driver asked.

"Something's on the roof." Silk replied as he put his knife away and grabbed his gun. "Someone thinks they're gonna mess with me?"

He rolled his window down and pointed the gun out before a large foot stomped on his hand breaking it and forced him to drop the gun. A large gloved hand then punched threw the roof of the car and dragged Silk out. Joannie used this and ran away sobbing as a large caped form punched Silk repeatedly.

"I think that's a little too much..." Robin said as he watched Future Batman beat the criminal. Nightwing looked at his present day Father/Mentor who was busy watching his future, was this how Bruce was gonna be in the future?

The driver tried to start his car in fear. "Oh man, oh man, Start Already."

Silk then landed on the hood knocked out. Someone knocked on the drivers window, he rolled it down before the Caped Crusader grabbed the cash and ripped it up and left.

"Ripping money, no wonder why our economy sucks." Blue Beetle joked only to receive a few looks and caused him to squirm.

"That was so not crash." Kid Flash told Blue Beetle. "Leave the jokes and one liners to the professionals."

"Great, figure I wanna get all soaked." a teenage girl with red hair said as she and her friend walked to the arcade. "Come on, we'll cut through here."

"I don't know." the friend spoke up. "I heard the Mutants hang here."

"That's the sign for you girls not to cut through there." Nightwing said as he almost facepalmed, and they said millennials were bad...

"A little back-bone Michelle?" The first girl spoke. "Better in here than out there. At least the lights are bright."

"Doesn't this girl know the rules, you don't ever say that in a creepy gang infested place!" Rocket exclaimed shaking her head.

The lights suddenly shut off.

"What did I tell you." She said again as a few snickered a bit.

"Carrie?" Michelle said in fear.

"Don't go all billy." Carrie said. "They'll come back on in a sec."

"Don't go all billy?" Nightwing said confused. "Is that really the new lingo of the future, it sounds more like made up 80's slang."

Suddenly they heard a man's voice. "Chick, chick, chick."

Mutant members than appeared around the two girls. "Chicken legs, licking legs. Slice and Dice."

"Oh, my God, Carrie. Aah!" the gang members grabbed the two.

"I got the little one." A Mutant member said covering Carrie's mouth as another approached with a knife.

"Slice and Dice." he raised his knife before his arm was stabbed by four Batarangs and he screamed in pain. "My arm. Something's stuck in my arm."

"Okay, now that is really excessive!" Batgirl exclaimed in shock as the Batfamily looked over at Batman who stood calmly watching his future self in action before Nightwing walked over to him.

"Just advice for the future, Batarangs are used to disarm not to stab in a person's arm." He said and caused Batman to glare at his first protegee who snickered nervously and backed up.

"I got my 9." The member holding Michelle spoke as he took out his gun. "Anything moves i'll-" a rope wrapped around his arm and pulled him away into the darkness.

"Where'd you go?" another Mutant member asked as lightning erupted and they all saw a large form over a unconscious member. He fired at the form but kept missing as the form drew closer with each shot before the mutant member was thrown into the Arcade sign being electrocuted.

"It's like every time we think Old Man Batman can't get more extreme he goes and does something like this." Robin commented as he groaned face-palming at all the extreme violence that Future Bruce was doing.

Carrie looked and saw a pair of white eyes looking at her before it disappeared when she looked away.

"Well at least their are somethings that stay the same." Superman smiled as he and everyone knew about Bruce's disappearing acts.

"Repeat, all units, robbery in progress, Gotham City Trust." a dispatcher said over the radio.

A Police car raced onto the scene as it dodged bullets from the robbers before they criminals got into their getaway car and started to race off with the police car moving after it.

One of the police officers looked back and noticed another car leaving the scene.

"Did you see that other car?" The younger officer asked the old one. "It just went the other way?"

"Meaning the car their following is probably a fake." Batgirl deduced as everyone nodded at that statement.

"Forget it, We're gonna loose this one as it is." The older officer replied as he glared at the car in front. Both cars dodged the traffic ahead of them. "Damn that sucker can move!"

Suddenly the younger officer looked up and his eyes widen as he leaned up. "The hell is that?"

"I can't exactly look right now kid." He older officer said.

"Up their, freakin weird!"

"Wanna tell me or- Holy!" Both officers eyes widen as they saw a shadowy silhouette of in the air as lightning stuck in the background making the silhouette even more a sight to behold.

"Okay wow..." Nightwing said eyes wide, "I mean, we work with him but seeing it from the polices perspective...that was pretty badass."

"Not that impressive." Superboy mumbled as he continued to watch as he was glad their was finally some action.

Suddenly the police car slowed down.

"You're slowing down?" The younger officer asked.

"Yeah." The older one grinned. "Your in for a show kid."

"10 years in retirement and the older officers still let you handle the work." The Flash smirked at Batman. "Looks like the G.C.P.D. got lazy over the years."

The Caped Crusader of the night glared at The Flash, the G.C.P.D. comrades in his war on crime, even if most of them were corrupt.

Batman swung on a grapple line before he landed on the hood of the getaway car and glared at the robbers who all had wide eyes and their jaws were hanging open at the appearance of the Batman.

One of the robbers then started to open fire but Batman dodged all the bullets before he jumped off the car as it drove into a construction yard and crashed.

The robbers got out of the car as one of them removed their mask and spoke. "That was the Batman."

"No really, I thought it was Superman." Superboy snorted in annoyance as a few snickered.

The criminals then ran into a condemned building as the Police car pulled up.

"I never thought he was real." The younger officer spoke in awe in his voice. "Look!"

Both officers saw Batman land in front of them as The Dark Knight looked back at them with a glare and spoke.

"These men are mine." Batman then moved into the building.

"..." The Batfamily looked at Batman.

"I never thought it was possible..." Robin began.

"...You've gotten more serious with age!" Nightwing finished snickering a bit. "Why can't you ever stay whelmed."

"You heard the man." The older officer said as he leaned back against the car.

"Are you crazy!" The younger spoke and held his gun up. "I'm going in."

"You don't wanna do that," The older one said. "Kid!"

The criminals moved up the building weapons ready.

"Batman would have to be old." One spoke.

"Terk said he killed Batman." Another replied.

"Terk says a lot of things."

On the floor below them, Batman threw a grapple line onto a metal pipe above him.

"This floor don't feel safe." One of the robbers said.

"Live dangerously and shut up!" His partner told him.

Batman grabbed his rope line and started to climb only to fall back to the ground exhausted as he breathed hard before he glared up and started to climb again until suddenly the metal pipe bent down revealing his position.

"Wow Old man, you really are out of shape." Green Arrow smirked at Batman. "Looks like you should of laid off the drinks for 10 years."

"Makes me wonder how you're like in the future." Black Canary spoke to Arrow. "Maybe you finally got less annoying with age."

"I resent that." Green Arrow replied.

"Please stop flirting already." Red Arrow interrupted the two who glared at the young Arrow.

"THERE!" A robber yelled before all three of them started to fire on Batman who jumped out of the way and disappeared again.

One of the robbers looked up to the floor above as they all heard creaking coming from above like footsteps.

"This is freaky." One of them spoke. "He's never made noise before."

"A non-ninja Batman, who would of thought they'd live too see the day." Flash joked causing a few members of the league to crack a smile.

"You have to admit it is weird too see." Superman spoke to Batman. "Makes you wonder how the rest of us are like?"

"Maybe." Batman spoke. "Maybe it's dangerous too see, knowledge of the future is bad."

"But the future can be changed." Superman replied.

"In a dangerous way." Batman said back.

"Stop worrying you two and just enjoy the show." Wonder Woman told them. Batman decided to listen, for now.

All three of them fired at the ceiling where they heard footsteps only to find nothing.

Suddenly a hand burst from the wooden floor and grabbed one of the robbers pulling him down.

"WATCH IT YOUR GONNA HIT-!" One of the robbers yelled as another fired at the hole.

"Mackie?" The other spoke. "I don't think I hit, I still don't see-" Suddenly he was cut off as a bat-rope tied around his neck and he was pulled down into the dark abyss.

"Didn't you teach us to tie around the arm and not the neck?" Nightwing said to Batman. He couldn't believe how different his mentor was in the future.

The last criminal ran down the stairs afraid and looked for The Dark Knight and his partners. Batman started to move close to the criminal ready to take him down before a light hit them both.

"EVERYBODY FREEZE!" The young Police officer from before yelled holding his gun. Batman jumped and pushed the officer aside as the criminal fired at him.

"You see what happens to stupid cops if Batman wasn't around." Robin said facepalming at the young cops stupidity.

The robber continued to fire all around him before he started to move again looking.

He looked straight as lightning exploded in the sky illuminating the room room revealing Batman to be right in front of him. Before he could do anything Batman disabled him and kicked him away before The Dark Knight leaped right onto the criminal crippling him.

"Your under arrest mister." The younger officer pointed his gun at Batman. "You just crippled that man!"

"CRIPPLED!" The three young members of the Batfamily yelled as Batman narrowed his eyes as his only reaction to this news.

"And the violence just escalated..." Blue Beetle said moving away from the batfamily a bit.

"He's young, he'll walk again." Batman replied calmly. "But you'll stay scared, won't you punk."

"How is that a good reason for crippling!?" Batgirl exclaimed in shock, the future wasn't looking very bright. She still wondered where she was in all this.

"I mean it get away from him!" The young police officer yelled again before his older partner grabbed his arm.

"He's being patient with you kid." The older man then turned to Batman and smiled. "Nice to have you back Bats." He looked at his partner. "Go to the car and get the loot."

"The pain..." The robber groaned in pain. "I can't stand it!"

Both Officers glared at each other.

"I don't believe this." The younger one said as he walked away.

"Neither can we." Nightwing commented dryly.

"It's not in the car." Batman spoke again. "Was their a second car at the bank?"

"Yeah." The officer said. "An old jalopy, didn't think-"

"You weren't suppose to." The Dark Knight interrupted.

"You know I saw you once before." The officer smiled as Batman pulled out a silver one dollar coin from the criminal both sides scratched off. "Years ago, I was a rookie like schmuck face there and-"

"Tell Gordon we have to talk." Batman said standing up.

"Sure thing Bats." The officer said and looked away. "But how is he suppose to get in touch with you."

He stopped as he saw Batman was gone and just grinned. "Oh yeah, now I remember."

"Reports are streaming in this morning." A news anchor said. "Sightings of a bat like creature throughout the city last night. You don't suppose-"

"A group of cat burglars, seriously injured-" Another anchor reported.

"Wild animal, snarling and growled a werewolf for sure." A man from a crime scene spoke.

Nightwing snorted. "Really a werewolf?"

"People in the future really have gotten dumb." Robin commented as well.

"It was a flying monster, with wings and fangs." Michelle spoke in fear.

"Reality check Michelle." Carrie spoke in the middle of their interview. "It was definitely a man but he had to be like 12 feet tall."

"More like 6 feet but close." Kid Flash snickered at all of this.

"Two abducted children were found alive in a riverside warehouse along with six critically injured members of the mutant gang." A female anchor spoke. "The children described the gangs attacker as a man dressed like Dracula."

"We will kill the old man Gordon, we will chop him, we will grind him, we will bathe in his blood." A large mutant spoke. "I myself will kill the fool Batman, I will rip the meat from his bones and suck them dry. Don't call us a gang, don't call us criminals, we are law. Gotham city belongs to the Mutants!"

"I'm guessing that's the mutant leader." Batman spoke glaring at the large man.

"I take back everything I said before." Batgirl glared at the screen. "I hope you pound that guy into the ground!" No one threatened her dad.

"Speaking of which after this you and I are having a talk." Nightwing told Batman, they were having a long talk about what not to do when coming out of retirement.

Sorry this took so long to do, wasn't really planning on taking this long.

Anyways leave a review and all that and I hope you enjoy.

Till next time.