6Episode 3 Season 1: Oracle
"My name is Barbara Gordon. When I was thirteen I became Batgirl, I met the man I love Dick Grayson, and I was Batgirl for five years. But like all families Bruce, Dick, and I had a fight and the Bat-family broke up. Dick and I moved to Blüdhaven… one day I got shot by Carmine Falcone. I was in a coma for five months when I woke up I was paralyzed which means no more Batgirl. I still wanted to help to do that I have to be someone else… something else. I am Oracle."
Previously on Nightwing:
"…I'm what…I'm paralyzed from the waist down…I may never walk again" Barbara started to break down crying, "…Yeah I understand…I'll see you as soon as you get down here." She hung up she looked Dick straight in the face tears rolling down her face in between sobs she asked, "What will happen to Batgirl?"
"…welcome" she said as she rolled into the room and the lights turned on it looked a lot like the Arrowcave except darker, with Wayne Tech, and in a clock tower, "to The Firewall." She said as the computer turned on to show the Oracle emblem.
Blüdhaven Clock Tower-present day, 10:13pm
"Easy there Nightwing I'm hacking their security system right now." Oracle said as her fingers flew over her keyboard, "I'm in deactivating infer red lasers now." She said, "Team word is go and please don't get anyone killed, that means Lady Nightwing."
Blüdhaven Wayne Enterprise building 10:13pm
"I'm just happy to be on the field you've been training me non-stop for two days." Lady Nightwing said with a smile and a telekinetic blast to some thugs sent them flying into a wall knocking them unconscious. In the background Nightwing was interrogating someone.
"Where are the other two Vulture!" he shouted.
"Go to hell." Vulture said.
"Baby." Nightwing said.
"Hacking his phone now." Oracle said. Vulture started to laugh.
"We had some friends of ours put a little protection on our phone." Vulture said then continued to laugh until he passed out.
"Nightwing someone put a virus on his phone I don't think—" her transmission was cut when the computer exploded.
"Barbara!" he shouted then jumped into the Nightbird and drove to the Clock tower when he got inside the power was shut down, which means the elevator didn't work so he jumped up the stairs one floor at a time when he finally got up the light from the fire showed her shadow on the wall, "Babs!" he shouted and ran to her. Dick reached up and grabbed his phone and quickly dialed a number, "Hello Dr. Thompkins… yes its Richard… Richard Grayson… the first Robin… Bruce took me to you after Two Face kicked my ass… I have a question… How fast can you make it to the clock tower in Blüdhaven?"
Flashback: Gotham City, New Jersey, Gordon home, nine years ago
"It's been great talking to you too Dick." Barbara said smiling.
"I wish I could see you more often the Babs I see at school is such a know -it- all." Dick said while doing math. He heard Barbara laugh.
"Babs? What the heck? Where did you come up with that?" Barbara said still giggling.
"What your name is Barbara and that takes so long to say so I thought I'd give you a nickname." he said.
"Are you sure you didn't steal it from my Facebook profile?" Barbara asked.
"That may have had some influence." Dick said quickly closing his Facebook tab on his laptop.
"It clearly says "Barbs" for my nickname on Facebook but I like yours better I'm going to change it to that." Barbara said smiling with a light blush in her cheeks, "Well I have to write a rough draft for an English paper which is due tomorrow."
"Oh crap that's due tomorrow?!" Dick shouted, "I need to start on that I'll see you tomorrow." Dick said then hung up.
Barbara put her phone on the table and started writing as Commissioner Gordon walked in and sat down on the foot of her bed.
"Who were you talking with?" He asked.
"A friend." Barbara said writing.
"A boy?" Gordon asked sternly.
"Yes Dad a boy but we're just friends." Barbara said a little annoyed.
"Your damn right and it'll stay that way until I see fit." Gordon snapped.
"He's a nice boy Dad, you'd like him. He lives with Bruce Wayne." Barbara said.
"Dinner!" Mrs. Gordon shouted presently.
"Coming Mom!" Barbara shouted and ran out of the room on her writing pad the words "Gotham Created Batman" were at the top.
Blüdhaven-present day, 3:45am
Oracle opened her eyes and saw Dick sitting next to her still in his Nightwing suit smiling, "Morning sleeping beauty." Dick said. Barbara sat up on her forearms.
"What the hell happened?" she asked.
"Something caused the computer to explode." Dick said, "And we only know one hacking couple that can do that." He said then looked at Barbara worried.
"Giz and Mouse are back in Blüdhaven." Barbara said attempting to get up Dick forced her down.
"You should be resting." Barbara looked slightly to her left and her eyes grew wide, she saw Dr. Leslie Tompkins standing in front of her.
"How long have you been standing there?" Barbara asked. Still pinned down, Nightwing realized how uncomfortable this looked with him on top, he dismounted Babs.
"About ten minutes." Dr. Tompkins said, "It's good to see you Barbara."
"Do you mind staying we could use a team medic." Babs quipped.
Flashback: Gotham North, nine years ago
Barbara was sitting on the steps of Gotham North waiting for her father to pick her up. She was engrossed in a book when suddenly a football hit her in the head, "Ow!" she said as her glasses fell off and the book was knocked out of her hands. A few seconds later someone was holding her book and glasses, she looked up and it was Dick Grayson, "Thanks Dick." She said with a small smile.
"You know you look better with your glasses off." Dick said making Barbara blush.
"Yo Dick! You gonna throw the ball or flirt with your girlfriend!?" a boy shouted.
"We're not dating!" Babs and Dick shouted in unison.
The 2 heard an obvious clearing of the throat, "Hello." Commissioner Gordon greeted.
"Dad!" Barbara said surprised standing up Barbara dropped her book.
"I swear I wasn't flirting with your daughter sir." Dick said then ran away and threw the ball with a nice spiral and it hit Alfred's car.
"Ready to go?" Gordon asked opening the door to his squad car.
Blüdhaven Clock Tower- present day 4:30pm
"So they're a nerd couple that enjoys cyber terrorism?" Cheyenne asked.
"That's a pretty accurate description yes." Barbara said working on setting up a new computer system with the help of Dr. Tompkins.
"And they can make computers explode?" Bette asked skeptically raising an eyebrow
'Yes once I finish setting up the new computer system I'll start writing a counter virus." Barbara said setting up a monitor, "Just find those S.O.B.s."
"We will Babs. I promise." Nightwing said as Bette and Cheyenne joined him in the garage, "Tonight you'll meet two of Oracle's eyes. Their names are John and Blake" he said putting on some regular clothes, "Put on some regular clothes over your superhero costumes."
Flashback: Gotham City, New Jersey: nine years ago
Bruce was waiting at the hospital as Dick had just been signed off to go home. He sees Dick on crutches as he made his way to the waiting area, escorted by doctors.
"How are you feeling Dick?" Bruce asked and met him half way.
"Oh, I don't know Bruce, about as good as any guy who gotten beaten almost to death by a couple of assassins and is now on crutches for a month." Dick mumbled angrily because he knew he'd be off the field.
"Well at least your enthusiasm is untouched." Bruce joked. Bruce and Dick made their way outside where Alfred was waiting by the car.
"It's good to have you back Master Dick." Alfred said opening the car door.
"Thanks Al." Dick replied. Before Dick and Bruce could step in, a voice yelled from afar.
"Dick!" Dick turned to seeing it was Barbara Gordon running towards him and tackling him with a hug, Dick groaning in pain as her grip was tight around his body, Bruce couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at the two. "GOD Dick Grayson I was so worried! The doctors wouldn't let me see you, they said that the injuries were fatal and-"
"Easy Babs, the only fatal injuries I'm getting right now are from you." Dick joked.
"Oh sorry." Barbara said as she let go of him, "Hello Mr. Wayne."
"Ms. Gordon." Bruce replied politely.
"How did you find out I was in the hospital?" Dick asked.
"Your butler told me." Barbara replied, Dick gave Alfred a look.
"Well I'm fine. Gonna be on crutches for a while though, but I promise to call you tonight. Dick said reassuringly.
"You better." Barbara replied.
(Shoutout to EugeneJ22 for letting me use this as a flashback if you want to check out what led up to this flash back check out his story Against the League it is in no way the same "Arrowverse" as this but before you write you borrowed something from his story without his permission an EXTREMELY long time ago I asked his permission and EugeneJ22 politely granted as long as I gave him credit which I just did)
Blüdhaven- present day 9:00pm
The team was on the battlefield searching for their hideout on Nightwing's belt a counter virus that should reverse whatever is happening then cause all the computers to crash followed by an electromagnetic pulse that will prevent them from attempting again, "Babs, sweetheart you've outdone yourself tomorrow I'll take you out to dinner." Nightwing said running from rooftop to rooftop landing in a pk roll and repeating the process.
"How about instead we do homemade breakfast in bed tomorrow, since we're busy at night time." Oracle said hacking into the city's archives to find the schematics for the desired building and frowned, "Bad news guys the only area with a strong enough Wi-Fi signal is the top floor and there is no ventilation shaft to climb through, my suggestion is knock on the front door."
"Copy that." Nightwing replied before realizing this is the back of the building, "Oops." As the team arrived, "Oracle any other entrances?" He asked.
"You're at the back aren't you." She said not as a question but as an assumption.
Nightwing chuckled, "You know me too well." The team snuck around and silently and efficiently took out the guards and if they did make a loud sound they grappled up and used the noise as a distraction to lure more thugs to the area, eventually they made it to the front Nightwing and Flamebird threw explosive variants of their throwing stars at the front door blowing it up. The explosion blew the door open and slammed into the thugs standing behind the doors knocking them out, after that a smoke grenade was thrown into the room and the field team ran in and chocked out the thugs on the ground floor until there were three left when the smoke cleared and all at the same time and all three thugs fell unconscious. Upstairs on one of the computer monitors was a security feed Mouse was angry and pouting.
"Oh my sweet bride to be please take care of that quipping asshole and his er… escorts to the six-feet-under apartment in Blüdhaven cemetery as I finish extracting ALL the money from everyone in Blüdhaven." Giz asked aggravated, "It'll take some time to move all this money into our account and then we can retire to the Bahamas." He over dramatically leaned back in his chair and did the classic hands behind the head legs crossed pose.
Mouse got her game face on, "Hey dimwits on me." She ordered with her squeaky voice with which the thugs did not take seriously they only followed orders in hopes of getting a piece of Mouse. Mouse grabbed a pair of nun chucks and jumped down. Lady Nightwing sent off a telekinetic blast that took out the thugs and without thinking charged Mouse.
"Lady Nightwing NOI!" Nightwing shouted angrily, Flamebird started to run after her Nightwing stopped her, "She's inexperienced and needs to learn this lesson." When Lady Nightwing reached Mouse she got clobbered by her with a nun chuck, "Take care of Mouse I got the tech-wiz." Nightwing ordered. Flamebird pulled out her Bo Staff and charged as Nightwing grappled up to the top floor.
Top
Giz was hard at work when a Wing Ding was thrown into the computer monitor, "Uh oh." He grabbed his knife and swung at Nightwing cutting him in the shoulder and then ran off. Nightwing plugged in the flash drive and ran after him.
Bottom
Flamebird was on the defensive blocking Mouse's attacks until Mouse cracked her on the back and started to flee not knowing Flamebird placed a tracker on her as she fell when Lady Nightwing started to stir.
Outside
Giz was climbing the fire escape's ladders as fast as he could since Nightwing was right on his tail he got to the roof and literally two seconds later Nightwing jumped to the roof Giz ran as Nightwing chased Giz fell off the roof landed in a dumpster got out and started to run Nightwing just jumped from the roof then from fire escape to the wall of the building and repeated until he was on the ground Nightwing wall ran after him.
"Nightwing I've marked my location on your map lead him to me I have a trap laid, its simple but should work" Flamebird said leaning up against a wall, "and make him run fast."
"Do I need to remind you who the field leader is?" Nightwing snapped.
"Do I need to remind you which member of your field agents has experience besides you?" Flamebird retorted, "Trust me."
"Fine." Nightwing said and hopped on his motorcycle, Giz started to run faster he wasn't looking where he was going and at the perfect moment Flamebird stuck out her Bo Staff clotheslining Giz she then jumped in the air and slammed her staff into his temple knocking him out she brushed some hair out of her face then looked at Nightwing looking for approval, he nodded with a smirk. Flamebird lowered her head trying to hide the goofy smile and the pink in her cheeks as Nightwing's car arrived. He plopped Giz in the crook storage before driving off followed by Flamebird on her bike, they eventually found the two women battling and Nightwing borrowed Flamebird's Bo Staff and chocked out Mouse from behind, Lady Nightwing looked dumbfounded," That's all you needed to do." Nightwing said calmly cuffing Mouse and putting her Next to Giz her head fell on Giz's shoulder and Nightwing slammed the door shut.
Flashback: Gotham North, nine years ago
Barbara was worried a few feet away her father was talking to Dick, and Dick seemed to agree with most of what he was saying. Jim walked back to his car and sat in the driver's seat, "What was tha-" she was cut off when Dick placed a long wanted and awaited kiss on her lips at first she was surprised then realized her dad had just given him permission to date her and she started to kiss back,
"About damn time!" One of Dick's friends shouted.
"Go Gray-son!" Another shouted.
BPD HQ: present day 3:00am
Amy walked to the top of BPD HQ to see Nightwing and his team standing on the edge at their feet Giz & Mouse, "You know what I don't care what their plan was, am I the only cop you trust?"
"No I have a friend in Gotham. the GCPD Commissioner James Gordon, I'd also trust Gannon Malloy." He said, "Take them to Lockhaven they can have their honeymoon there. Goodnight officer." He said then smirked and the three vigilantes jumped off the roof right before a few officers opened the door to the roof, "Rohrbach who what's going on up here?"
"I just got two presents from Blüdhaven's guardian angles, Nightwing, Flamebird, and… I didn't catch the last one's name but I guess it's Lady Nightwing."
"Redhorn don't like 'em." An officer said.
"What vigilantes dose ol' Redhorn like?" Rohrbach snapped.
"Fair point." Another officer mumbled, "What should we do with these two?" He asked.
"Notify Lockhaven that they're getting two returning inmates, and get a squad to head to this location." She walked over and handed a piece of paper to Gannon, "MOVE!" She shouted.
Blüdhaven Clock Tower 3:30am
The Team walked into the main area Nightwing kissed Oracle who was in her usual spot, "Hey Cheyenne!" Nightwing shouted she looked at him feeling defeated, he removed is mask and walked over he knelt down next to her, "Tomorrow I have the day off, come over here I'll teach you Eskrima. How does that sound?" He smiled and patted her on the shoulder, "If it makes you feel better when I was starting out I took a worse ass beating from Two-Face."
Blüdhaven 3rd National Bank
The bank alarm was blaring red lights and in the wall was a metallic red X.
Author's Notes: Alright this took a long time to write you'll have to forgive me but I wanted to build the characters a bit mainly the ones that were robotic (Babs), inexperienced (Cheyenne), or looking for approval (Bette) (To be honest I use my personality for Dick tell me if it fits or not I mean I took a quiz that said I'm Red Robin but I want to know your opinion) for Bette and Cheyenne these will be their arcs for the rest of the season and Dick's will be adapting to working in a team again (though he's doing good so far) Anyways as if you read the wrestling story you know I had an AVM rupture over a year ago and well I can't use that as an excuse I guess I had writer's block. So please review tell me how I can improve your interpretation of an Arrowverse Nightwing since in episode 411 (Season 4 episode 11) of Arrow he was confirmed to exist with the line, "I was going to go with Oracle but it's taken" with also confirms Batman on Earth-1 in the Arrowverse and I'm rambling remember in three episodes the reveal of the big bad even though it's pretty obvious from the end of episode 2. And again a huge thanks to EugeneJ22 for allowing me to use that scene check out Against the League it's on my favorite stories list so if you like this you might like that, anyway hope to have another chapter out in a much shorter timespan than this one.
