[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

When Tim woke up, the first thing he found was that he was stripped to nothing but his underpants.He hurriedly touched his face to make sure his domino mask was still there.If the secret identities of all the Bat Vigilantes are exposed because of him, Tim feels that he has no other choice but to apologize by harakiri.

Fortunately, the mask is still there.

The urgent identity crisis is temporarily lifted, and Tim is now in the mood to start observing his situation.Sad to say, this isn't the first time Tim has been kidnapped on night watch, but it's the first time someone has stripped him naked after he's been kidnapped.This is worth noting.

Generally, old gangsters or Arkham's old opponents would remove belts, cloaks, etc., and search their bodies to prevent them from hiding small props in the interlayer of their clothes.But they don't know that apart from things that can be touched, the bat vigilantes have more places to hide things that cannot be searched, so every time they feel that they have been careful and prepared, they will still be caught by the vigilantes in the end. They broke free and caught them off guard.

This time the kidnapper was so good, he stripped him naked, and carefully checked that even the underpants were not his own!Tim really didn't know whether to praise the other party for his meticulousness, or complain about whether this paranoid and suspicious personality is Bruce's relative?He tried to activate the small program in the mask without much hope, but it didn't work.This mask is left with only one function of concealing the true face.

The first thing Tim noticed was the temperature.

Even if you don't need to wear a heavy coat this season, it's not the time when you can run around naked without catching a cold.But since he woke up until now, he hasn't felt cold, and even feels that the temperature in this room is quite comfortable.Look at the room's rather simple furnishings, a small sink and toilet to deal with physiological needs.A chair and a cabinet are locked to the ground. There are canned water and dry food in the cabinet, and there is a small box containing proprietary medicines, which are common household medicines. Pain relievers include anti-allergic, Stomach medicine and so on.The wall is made of thick fire-proof and sound-proof material, and the only doorway is anti-riot and anti-shock design. This is a safe room.

Confirming where he is, Tim begins to search the room for what he imagines.

Although the safe room can store food and water, the homeowner also needs to observe the situation outside to decide the allocation of resources. If all the supplies are used up without waiting for rescue, it would be too unfair to die.Therefore, in this kind of safe room, there will probably be surveillance cameras that can check the outside. All the lines are independent from the main house. Even if the gangsters break in and cut off the power supply of the main house, the surveillance here should still be able to operate.

Tim groped along the wall, and sure enough, he found a secret door that could be opened near the seat. Inside was a touch screen connected to a telescopic robotic arm.He touched around the outer frame of the screen, and was disappointed to find that the screen was also locked, and he couldn't disassemble it without tools.Then he pressed the power button helplessly and waited for the screen to light up.

It's just that what appeared on the screen was not the monitoring screen that he expected, frame by frame, but a screen of a communication software.There are three existing contacts, one is "Little Red Bird" and the other two are "Star Lord" and "Star Prince".

A speech bubble appears at the top of the chat history, which means that someone in the contact is typing.

Prince of the Stars: He just watched the screen and didn't speak (stare)

Xingjue: So wretched (stare)

Tim didn't know what to think.Obviously, the two kidnappers opposite him who stripped him naked are relatively wretched!Why does it sound like he is the pervert in the other party?With a bad face, Tim sat down on the chair and adjusted the angle of the screen to start typing:

Little Red Bird: Who are you?

Little Red Bird: What is your purpose?

After entering the two questions, Tim waited for the other party's reply.This is the first time he has encountered this type of kidnapper. Generally speaking, Batman's enemies tend to attack Robin because they hope to use Robin to threaten Batman. The more they talk to Robin, the more they unknowingly expose too much information.This time the opponent chose to use the screen as the medium, and as a standard technical nerd, Tim deeply knows that the screen is the most untrustworthy.

For example, sophisticated technological criminals can secretly hack into the bank's system and transfer all the money away, but the owner of the account still sees on the screen that he has many zero deposits.

Now Tim judges that there are two people on the other side, but it is also possible that there is actually only one person manipulating the two accounts, or multiple people take turns using the two accounts to communicate with him, or even no one at all, just a computer AI working!Moreover, the expression and voice of the other party cannot be seen only by the text, so Tim has no way of judging whether the person speaking behind each sentence is provocative or probing.

This time, the opponents are smarter than the ones they have encountered before.

Star Prince: Don't ask, you will be afraid

Star Lord: Prince of the Stars

Prince of the Stars: Did you see it? Really, it’s not good to know too much

Star Prince: I'm hungry, what's for lunch?

Tim caught the keyword "lunch". It was night when he was caught, which means he was unconscious until noon the next day?Wait, it's because he saw Damian... No, he thought he saw Damian, and it turned out that it was an enemy trap.

But why did the enemy know to use Damian as bait?Bruce did not report the news that Damian had run away from home, nor did he call the police. He knew that once the police were dispatched, they would only scare the snake away.But from another perspective, Bruce has always created the image of "Batman is my good buddy", so Bruce's child is lost, and it is very reasonable for him to seek help from Batman. This may be a person who is very familiar with Batman and Wayne. enemy, he can try to start from here.

Little Red Bird: What happened to the Wayne kids?

Little Red Bird: Please don't hurt him, he's just a runaway kid.

Little Red Bird: If you want to lure out Batman, using me is enough, please don't hurt the children of the Wayne family.

Outside the security room, Jason and Damian were each holding a tablet computer, and the chat interface on the screen was exactly the same as Tim's.Jason's account is "Star Lord", so "Star Prince" is naturally Damian's.

Jason pointed to the speech that Tim had just sent, begging the gangsters not to hurt Damian, and winked at someone sitting on the bed with a face as black as the bottom of a pot: "They told me not to hurt you."

Damian clicked his tongue, did not answer Jason's question, and typed on the tablet with his head down.

Star Prince: Lunch.

Star Prince: I'm hungry.

"You can tell me directly, are we going to enter the setting of a technology-indifferent family now? Under one roof, but everyone is swiping their phones and typing without talking." Jason cut his tablet to the video, Madagascar, who was halfway through the progress bar, handed it to Groot, "Take it, boy."

"I'm Groot." (King Julian!) Groot ran from the other side of the bar to Jason with his two little feet, and sat obediently waiting for Jason to show him the video.

The little Treeman's hand is like poking the screen with a twig to Earth technology, and although Jason strapped a homemade stylus to one of his twigs, Groot still likes to be fucked as long as The life of being an uncle watching movies.

"That's right, King Julian." Jason pressed the play button, and the lemur king in the movie began to sway, and the whole safe house was filled with the music of "Iliketomoveit", and Groot followed King Julian's movements "move it" together.

"I'm going to get lunch, goat cheese omelette?" Jason began to search for ingredients in the refrigerator without looking back.

"French toast, too." Damian was finally willing to order, Jason nodded, and took out two slices from the thick slice of toast he bought yesterday.

The counter was soon filled with ingredients. Jason rolled up his sleeves and fixed them with long tail clips, put on his apron and started cooking.While beating eggs with a cooking bowl, Jason turned his head and asked Damian, who was frowning deeply, "How's the situation?"

"I can't get in." Damian's answer almost popped out through his teeth, "Father must have upgraded the firewall, and the alliance's hacking tools have almost all failed. If I were in the mansion, I could still use the voice password! You Say I should..."

"No." Jason put down the beaten egg and began to spread cream into the pan, "That's the point of the whole plan, it depends on how important Drake is to the old man and Dick, and then we make a plan based on that." Remove him."

"But if I go back, we can work together inside and out." Damian smelled the fragrance of the cream and felt that his decision was really a great sacrifice, but he could sacrifice himself for the sake of a holy mission, "I can directly observe their reaction."

"Yes, but there is one difference." Jason poured the egg liquid into the pan, turned down the heat and waited for the egg liquid to solidify, "Their pressure is different. You are not here, the old man has to deal with things including The night watch, the red hood, you and the red bird. But his manpower is limited, Batman and Nightwing can't handle everything at the same time, he has to prioritize. This is very important reference indicators."

Damian closed the tablet and tossed the earphones to Groot, "Can you use the earphones? I have something to talk to Jason, and your cartoon voice will be distracting."

The little tree man nodded, plugged in the earphones and re-immersed himself in DreamWorks' animal kingdom, Damian raised an eyebrow at Jason: "Do you mean that father should look for me first or take Drake first as an argument?" To measure his importance?"

"That's it." The egg liquid was half solidified, Jason turned off the fire, poured the cheese filling of the omelet egg, covered it and started to suffocate.

"Hmm." Damian nodded slowly, but narrowed his eyes, "Why do I feel that this design has some...personal factors?"

"Not really. You're thinking too much." Jason observed the situation of the omelet while preparing French toast.

Damian nodded kindly, jumped out of bed and walked to the bar: "Of course. If you say that, then I think it must be the same as the clown returning to the stage after the first appearance of Red Robin, and Batman didn't have the same It has nothing to do with being punched to death."

"Do you want your toast to be sweet or salty." Jason didn't look back at Damian, he stopped stirring the eggs and fresh milk, and his breathing became obviously much heavier.

"Sweet, thank you." Damian walked around the bar, went to the cabinet next to Jason, took out the plates and began to prepare the table, and took out Groot's sparkling mineral water from the refrigerator, stuffed it into a small glass for the addicted animation little tree man.

"I thought you'd figured it out that father couldn't kill someone, even that disgusting scum." Damian didn't hide the venom in his voice when he mentioned the clown, "but you still want to prove...he's biased, In some other way."

Jason came to the bar with a frying pan, and shoveled the rolled omelette into Damian's plate: "Just say what you want to say, Dami, you don't need to beat around the bush like this."

"I just want to say that I am not opposed to the plan to remove Drake. His motives seem to be impure and very suspicious, but I refuse to be used as a weapon. I am not a tool for you to test whether your father is partial or not." Damianche The next bite of the omelet was stuffed into his mouth, and he sighed in satisfaction due to the strong salty goat milk cheese taste, "This omelet is delicious, thank you."

Jason stared blankly at Damian eating with his head down, as if the conversation just now had never happened.He let out a long breath, and turned back to scrub the pan, preparing to fry the toast that had already absorbed the sweet egg juice.

"Just because I understand doesn't mean I'm not hurt." The toast sizzled when it touched the pan, "There are some things you don't understand. When I was Robin, I was always compared to Dick."

"So you think if it was Grayson, father would have killed the Joker?"

"No! Maybe? But he will definitely do something... I don't know!" Jason waved the wooden spatula in the air for a while, and finally lowered his arms in frustration, pouring the toast onto the After serving Damian on the plate, he soaked the pot and other dishes in the sink, took a can of beer from the refrigerator, and took a big gulp.

"Oh, I know." Damian still behaved like a nobleman, with perfect etiquette, he cut the toast and ate it with the sauce from the previous omelette plate, "I can even tell you now, Don't experiment, father is eccentric."

"What?" Jason put down the beer and looked at Damian in a daze.

"Among you, me, and Grayson, you will be my father's favorite, and Grayson will be his most trusted one, but only I will be my father's heir." Damian's matter-of-fact expression made Jay Sen suddenly felt like laughing, what did Damian know?He can come to such conclusions.

"I just know." Damian rolled his eyes, "Please, your expression is too obvious. I know, because..." The child's hand holding the tableware tightened, "Because I always knew that mother was partial of."

Oh.

Oops.

Jason suddenly felt that he had done something stupid.But he swears to God he never intended to make Damian feel unloved!But Damian completely ignored Jason's blue face and continued:

"My mother never talked about my father in front of me. She told me that everything in the world must be won by myself, so since I can remember, I have been studying and exercising every day, because I am a combination of Child of mother and father's best genes, I can't fail. I was born with a mission. Mother loves me, but that's because I live up to all her expectations, but when mother says you, you are her The most perfect kid! Father...I'm not even sure Father wants me to stay, but he's doing a big dance in the hall to get you back!"

"It's not true." Although Jason said so, his voice was so weak that even he himself didn't believe it. It is a biological fact that 95% of parents are eccentric.Wait, did he hear something just now... Tiao Da Shen?

"This is true." Damian's expression was tangled, a piece of toast poked on the fork was rubbing back and forth on the plate, "I saw him doing the ceremony the first day I walked in. Then Drake was him altar boy."

Jason silently downed the beer in sips.He didn't get up to wash the dishes until he had finished a can of wine.

"If you want to go back, how do you explain that you are still clean after wandering outside for so many days?"

"Easy, I have cash on me. I just need to explain about the laundry, and if I do go to the laundromat, there will be a surveillance record."

"I can take care of this. There is a charity second-hand store near Crime Lane. If you lose this one on your body, just go get a second-hand clothes."

It didn't take long for Jason to buy two sets of underwear that looked like dried pickles from a second-hand store. Damian put on one of the clothes that didn't look so harmful to the eyes with a look of disgust, and stuffed the other set into it. in his backpack.

"It smells bad." Damian raised his sleeve and sniffed in front of his nose. "Is this a rag?"

Jason planned a path with the fewest monitors for Damian to go home. This path will pass through some of the most chaotic areas in Gotham, but Damian can definitely handle it with his skills, and there are still a few on this path. Running monitors are easy to avoid.

"That's right, I use this as the standard to pick." Jason handed Damian the road map, "Be patient, it's only a few hours, it's realistic."

"...I hate you." Damian roughly shoved the road map back into Jason's hands, rushed out of the safe house and set foot on the way back to the mansion to be a mole.

***

Bruce couldn't tell what it was like to see his youngest son walking down Wayne's private driveway with his head bowed alone as soon as he woke up and opened the curtains.

His first thought turned out to be "Great, I can focus on finding Tim!"

Tim rarely used emergency calls for help. When he and Nightwing arrived, only Red Robin's belt and cape were left on the scene. The trackers on the uniform were scattered in every corner of Gotham City, so no matter who Kidnapping Tim, the other party's anti-tracking measures are very thorough.

He and Ye Yi worked together from late night to daytime, and in the end both of them ended up being drugged by Afu.Every time this happened, he would angrily ask Ah Fu why he took the medicine, and Ah Fu always said calmly: "Thank you, sir, for giving me the opportunity to exercise." Bruce would think of an old man dragging his heavy body from He went to the bedroom of the big mansion in the bat cave, and he had to change into pajamas and put him on the bed... Then he bowed his head guiltily and went back to the bat cave.

"Father." Damian stood upright in front of Bruce, his green eyes, which were exactly like Thalia's, looked up at Bruce.The lines that made him ready to blame the irresponsible behavior of running away from home were completely lost.It came down to him not giving this kid enough attention, he wasn't a good father.

"Damian." Bruce could only pat Damian on the head in embarrassment, "Go back to your room, take a shower, and have a good rest. If you need anything, tell Ah Fu, and we can talk about it after I'm done. talk, okay?"

"Okay, Father." Damian obediently turned around and walked to his room, stopping halfway, "Is Drake at home? I saw his motorcycle is still there."

Bruce didn't answer the question right away, until Damian turned and looked at him with puzzled eyes: "Father?"

"Tim...is missing." Bruce pinched the bridge of his nose, his jaw tightened, "Last night, he went looking for you, and was kidnapped by an enemy on an unknown path. Me and Dick are still trying Narrow your search."

"Oh." Damian's modest embarrassment is enough for Bruce to think it's because he's surprised that Drake is looking for him, and overwhelmed by the fact that he's indirectly caused Drake to be kidnapped , "Uh...if you need help, I can..."

"No." Bruce flatly rejected Damian's proposal, as he thought, "The rules are still the same, you can't participate in night activities. Go back to your room, Damian."

This time, he rushed back to the room without looking back, slammed the door to make sure that the loud noise could be heard throughout the room, and then rushed straight into the toilet.His father probably installed surveillance cameras in his room when he was away from home, but the toilet should be the place with the lowest possibility of surveillance. He believed that his father would not think that he could squeeze out through the small air window.

He took out his tablet and opened the chat software where both Jason and Drake were present:

Star Prince: I'm here

Xingjue: Much faster than I thought

Xingjue: I’m chatting with Xiaohong about her qualifications for Robin (excited)

Little Red Bird: Robin was not drafted

Little Red Bird: How many times have I told you

It seemed that Jason had been bugging Drake, which was fine, distracting him so much that he didn't know how much time had passed.

Damian put down the tablet, turned on the faucet and shook off the dirty rag on his body as fast as he could, scrubbed with soap and scrubbed every part of his body that had been in contact with that piece of clothing, and then he let the water flow continue, making him The illusion of still taking a shower.Pick up the tablet and review Jason and Drake's chat history.

Xingjue: So...why is "Red" Robin (curious) (curious)

Little Red Bird: You haven't answered my previous question

Little Red Bird: Wayne boy, what happened to him?

Star-Lord: Are you going to say next: "If you hurt him, I'll hurt you"

Little Red Bird: No

Little Red Bird: But his dad will hurt you

Little Red Bird: Seriously, you don't want to face his dad

Little Red Bird: So whatever you're trying to do, don't hurt Wayne's boy

Damian frowned. It seemed that Drake was not so easy to break through, after all, he had been hiding it for so many years.It would be too ugly if it was revealed all at once.

Star-Lord: Don't worry, my target was never Rich Wayne's kid

Star-Lord: I just happened to know that you bats are looking for him everywhere, so I designed a scene

Xingjue: I didn’t expect to catch one, I’m so lucky (happy)

Little Red Bird: Are you saying the kid I saw wasn't Damian?

Star Lord: That's right

Xingjue: Actually, that’s my brother

Little Red Bird: Whatever you say

Xingjue: Isn’t it just what I like to say (laughs)

Xingjue: Believe it or not, it's your family's business (laughs)

Star Lord: So why is it Red Robin (curious)

Star Lord: I thought Robin was just like Pound, every generation of Pound was called Pound

Little Red Bird: because I'll never be "Robin," period

"Master Damian, are you ready?" The butler's voice came from outside the bathroom along with the knock on the door.Damian quickly stuffed the tablet into the bag, zipped it up, and shouted out the door at the same time: "It's almost ready, Pennyworth."

Walked around under the shower head again, wrapped a towel and stepped out of the bathroom as if he had just showered with dripping water all over his body.Alfred stood at the door holding a bathrobe, confirming that Damian was wrapped in a clean and warm robe, and the housekeeper took out Damian's backpack and the pile of dirty clothes on the floor from the bathroom.

"I'll decide to dispose of these clothes, Master Damian." The old man seemed uncomfortable with the smell from these clothes, "Is there anything else you need to dispose of together?"

"There are some more." Damian took the backpack, opened it in front of the butler, and pulled out another set of old clothes that Jason got from a second-hand store, and handed it to him, "Thank you, Pennyworth."

"I'll bring tea and snacks over in a while, Master Damian." Alfred exited the room with his dirty clothes in his hands, and left such a sentence at the door: "It's great to have you back, Master Bruce almost I'm going to contact your mother."

Damian didn't speak, and Alfred brought tea and all kinds of salty and sweet snacks with a cart five minutes later.

Bruce didn't set foot in Damian's room until night.

***

Batman terrorizes every habitual, drug addict he can find around crime alley.I want to get news about Red Robin from them, even if it's just a little fragment.A kidnapper can sneak up on Red Robin and disarm him, but how does one lead another unconscious person off Crime Alley without being spotted?

"We don't know! Grandpa, we really don't know!" The guy who took drugs and lost all his teeth was kneeling on the ground as soon as Batman approached, "Many times I don't even know what day it is today!"

Another useless guy, Batman glanced at the needles on the ground, and casually reported to the police with an anonymous report. The poisonous bug has been in a trance, and he didn't even feel that he was tied up by Batman.

In the safe house, Jason watched the live broadcast of Batman's actions that Damian had just connected to.The kid basically routed the feed back to the Batcomputer directly to his tablet and then to Jason.

Jason didn't quite believe what Damian said at first, as long as he was in the mansion, he could fool the voice authentication.Now it looks like he really has two brushes.

Star Lord: Bats are looking for you

Little Red Bird: Of course he will

Little Red Bird: He'll find me soon and kick your ass hard

Prince of Stars: Or he will directly change a partner

Tim, who typed quickly, hesitated for a long time this time.

Little Red Bird: Maybe

Little Red Bird: But I didn't intend to be a Red Robin for the rest of my life

Both Jason and Damian raised their eyebrows in unison.So Drake really didn't just come here for the position of a young hero, he has a deeper purpose, and they need to lure this purpose out!

Prince of Stars: Planning to be promoted and become Batman

Star Prince: Does your boss know that you want to usurp the throne?

Little Red Bird: Go

Little Red Bird: Think everyone is as dirty as you!

After leaving these two sentences, Tim never responded. Even though Jason and Damian were singing together and pretending to be crazy, Tim didn't even answer a single emoji.

Naturally, Jason went to check the security room's monitor, and saw on the screen a frantic and roaring Tim who was crazier than the Arkham patient attacking the wall of the security room.

From this angle Jason could see Tim's lips.

But he would rather he hadn't learned to read lips, because what Drake just said was definitely not: "Jason".

"My old swan, I have never offended you!"