I am a big fan of Young Justice and have a special love-hate relationship with Red Hood and the Outlaws so I decided to make somewhat of a crossover. I feel like that Cartoon Network made a mistake by canceling such a quitessiental show like Young Justice and they missed an opportunity to expand Jason's story with the new series. This takes place in the Young Justice Universe and takes place after season 2.

Chapter 1

BludhavenJun. 3rd 11:30pm

Like many of nights in Bludhaven, the weather was less-than glamorous. Dark clouds swelled over the city, lightning striking different points. The city itself was just as desirable to the certain criminal element, especially to a certain arms dealer known as the Penguin.

Penguin had large weapons caches stored around the city, but his largest cache was located in a rundown wharehouse near the wharf. The building was swarming with goons hired by the Penguin to be his muscle and protection for his shipments that would come and go throughout the city.

Up on the roof, two of said goons, carrying AK-47s, scanned over the city. Unbeknownst to them, a shadowy figure rose over the wall behind them and gently touched down on the roof. Standing up fully, the figure pulled out two escrima sticks and hurled the first one right at the guard on the left, connecting with his head.

After being hit, the guard on the left collapsed in an unconscious heap. His friend quickly turned around but was immediately met with a roundhouse kick to the face by the figure. As the goon looked up to see the assailant, he came face to face with none other than Nightwing, before quickly being knocked out with a blow from the other escrima.

After retrieving his weapons, Nightwing surveyed his surroundings. The building itself was only about three stories high. Besides the doorway, the only other entry point was a large opening that was covered by glass window.

A perfect entry point, Nightwing thought making his way over to the opening.

As he stood on top of the opening, he noticed the interior of the warehouse. There were around twenty to twenty five thugs, and more cash than in Bludhaven's largest bank. That was to be expected, but Nightwing was shocked to see the Penguin standing in the middle of the area, counting a large stash of cash.

Nightwing took a deep breath before raising his escrima sticks. Finding his nearest target, a rather bulky goon, Nightwing soon launched himself through the opening and land on the goon. Nearly every thug and the Penguin were shocked by Nightwing's sudden appearance.

"What the 'ell is this?" Penguin asked in his cockney accent. "I wasn't expecting a circus in my warehouse."

"Nice to see you Penguin," Nightwing replied. "The fish in Gotham getting so bad, you thought you'd try Bludhaven."

Penguin scowled and waved his hand toward his goons. Nightwing suddenly noticed multiple guards pulled out guns and pointed them at Nightwing. Quickly reaching down into his utlity belt and detonated a smoke pellet, smoke rapidly spreading throughout the room.

Using his quick agility, Nightwing went about dispatching as many of the armed goons as he could. He sweeped the leg of one goon and gave a quick jab to the goons temple. He used his escrima sticks to take out two more thugs. However, as the smoke cleared, Nightwing came face-to-face with the muzzle of a gun.

"Drop your weapons and get down on the floor hero," the goon with the gun said.

Nightwing reluctantly dropped his escrima sticks and dropped down to his knees. As he tried to look for a way out, he noticed a small ball roll between him and the thug. Is that what I think it is, he thought before the muzzle of the gun was lowered closer to his face.

The goon laughed and said, "You don't seem so tough. Any last words?"

"Yeah, you may want close your eyes," Nightwing replied before closing his eyes and covering his ears with his hands. The goon looked surprised, right before the ball below them exploded, unleashing a large array of blinding light and concussive sound.

The goon was flung backwards in pain. Though, he tried to protect himself, Nightwing also found himself affected by the flash bang. His body slipped to the ground as he tried to regain his composure.

As he looked through his blurry vision, he noticed three figures in the room, now taking down as many goons as they could. It couldn't be, Nightwing thought, I thought I made it clear that I wanted to be left alone.

After each taking down an individual thug, the three figures regrouped right in front of Nightwing. Each figure, two male and one female, turned around to face the stunned hero. With a light showing in, it revealed that the figures were none other than his former teammates: Aqualad, Tigress, and Robin.

Aqualad knelt down and extended a hand to Nightwing. "It looks like we arrived to your aide, just in time old friend," he said.

"I asked that you guys give me some time alone, is that too hard to ask for?," Nightwing asked, begrudgingly taking the hand. "I had everything under control before you arrived."

"Yeah, clearly you did," Tigress added. "That's why you were on your knees with a gun pointed in your face."

Nightwing scowled at her, but was interrupted by an obnoxious voice. "I hate to break up the family reunion," Penguin said as he was surrounded by his men with guns. "But you freaks are outnumbered, so why don't you scurry off and I'll think 'bout letting you live."

"Ironic, a man who associates himself with a flightless bird is calling us 'freaks'," Robin said. "And also did you not notice we've already taken out a lot of your goons, mate."

Penguin was becoming furious, but Nightwing paid no mind to him. "Look guys I have this handled, why don't you guys head back to the Tower and I'll see you up there for the annual Christmas party, okay?"

"Actually we're here for you old friend," Aqualad said. "What?" Nightwing asked. The other heroes were reluctant to answer him. The Penguin was the least of Nightwing's worries now as he turned his back to the criminal.

"What do you mean you're here for me?" Nightwing asked again, becoming a little irratated.

"Oy, why don't you find your own place to have your secret conversations, and not use my warehouse," Penguin said, having his men raise his guns at the teens. "Now clear out, or my men will fill ya full of lead."

"How about we deal with blubber-mouth over there," Tigress said. "Then we can fill you in on what's going on."

With that being said, Nightwing quickly reached down to his utility belt and pulled out two more smoke pellets. Detonating them, smoke rapidly spread throughout the room. Penguin's men fired, but the heroes had quickly moved out of the way.

The goons all looked to Penguin. "Well don't just stand there," he said, "spread out and find them."

The goons spread out, but the smoke was too thick. Suddenly, one guard on the outskirts was dragged into the smoke and disappeared. The other goons fired off a couple rounds in that direction, but there was only ricochets. Two other thugs, who were furthest away from the commotion were then immediately pulled down in the smoke, leaving only two other goons.

Last remaining thugs decided to stand back-to-back in order to better their odds. All around them, they noticed shadows rising out of the smoke. Spooked, they began unloading rounds off in every direction, nearly hitting the Penguin.

"Oy you dolts, watch where you're shooting," he said.

Seeing one more shadow, the goons tried to unleash another series of rounds. But nothing came out of the weapons. Trying quickly to reload, neither thugs noticed Aqualad falling down from the ceiling and landing right on top of them.

As the smoke finally cleared, Penguin was standing all alone as his group of thugs lay unconscious on the ground. Aqualad, Tigress, and Robin stood unscathed in front of him. There was a tapping on Penguin's shoulder, and as he turned around he saw Nightwing bring down his escrima stick on his skull and the world went dark.

The Bludhaven Police had arrived shortly after Nightwing notified them. Several officers went to work, either booking thugs or carrying weapons or cash out of the warehouse. Aqualad personally led a handcuffed, and grumbling, Penguin towards one of the Police vans.

While Aqualad was being thanked by Bludhaven's commissioner, Nightwing, Tigress, and Robin stood on top of the roof of the warehouse. "So what is so important that you need my help?" Nightwing asked.

"There is a growing disturbance in Gotham and we need your help to stop it," Tigress said. She added sarcastically, "So we were wondering if you could take time from your oh so busy schedule to help us."

Nighwing was beginning to become seriously irritated with her attitude, but thankfully Robin stepped in. "Please Dick," he said, "we're stretched thin with most of the main League still searching for how far the Light's plans really went."

"There is also another thing," Aqualad said making his way on the roof. "Fill him in Robin."

"What is it Tim?" Nightwing asked.

"We don't know what this new threat wants exactly yet," Robin said. "But we are sure of one thing: their targeting the team. More specifically their targeting us Dick."

As Dick was unsure of how to take this news, in the distance a mysterious figure stood on the rooftop of a building. Dressed in a leather jacket and covered in a red mask, the figure watched the exchange from the heroes with binoculars.

"Good," the figure said. "The pieces are finally coming into place."