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Dick Grayson glared at the video in front of him. Someone had stolen his Red X suit a few months ago and had started to just be a menace in both Jump City and Gotham City. It was like he was taunting Dick at every single corner and the teenager was getting absolutely fed up with it.
“Yo, what is he doing?” Gar asked, standing behind Dick and watching the video of Red X throwing hands with the Joker.
“He’s fighting the Joker?” Dick answered, still watching as Red X suddenly jumped in the air and wrapped his legs around Joker’s neck, his fingers digging into the clown’s eyes. “And it’s doing it in a really unhinged way.”
“What shall we do about him, Robin?” Kori asked, hands clasped together.
The vigilante let out an annoyed sigh. “He’s in Gotham, I’m just going to take care of it myself. I’ll call you guys if I need anything,” Dick said, looking at the screen still annoyed beyond belief. This guy was really driving him crazy at this point.
…
Danny was having the time of his life. When Clockwork had told him he was sending Danny to another dimension to let off some steam, he never expected this to be what Clockwork had meant! He had given Danny this suit and told him to do whatever Danny wanted and that was exactly what Danny was going to do. And along the way he had even managed to become some vigilante’s arch nemesis! How cool was that?
Danny was living his dreams finally getting to play the role of supervillain. Now, he wasn’t doing anything evil, per say. Honestly, all he was doing was causing some minimal damage and a lot of chaos. He had picked fights with the Teen Titans, fought Batman and Superman and he had been driving the Joker crazy! He was living his absolute best half life and it was amazing.
And is nemesis? He was an absolute fucking cutie pie and Danny was obsessed with driving him crazy.
“Hi pretty bird,” Danny said, appearing by Robin as he jumped from one roof to another.
“Oh my god,” Robin muttered, and Danny just knew that beneath his cute little domino mask he was glaring daggers at Danny. “What do you want X? I thought you were terrorizing the people of Star City.”
“I was! But then I decided that I missed you and so I came back to Gotham to have some fun and play,” he said with a happy giggle before he followed Robin as he jumped across to another roof. “How are things with you and your little hero squad?”
“What are you up to this time, X?” Robin demanded and crossed his arms over his chest. Danny just shrugged.
“I dunno. I think I just want to torture Joker some more,” he answered before snagging one of Robin’s Batarangs and twisting it around in his fingers. “I really fuckin’ hate clowns man and he’s fun to bother. But also, I have some new inventions that I want to play with and I was thinking about maybe picking a fight with your dear old daddy and driving him insane.”
“He’s not my dad,” Robin said with an annoyed huff, crossing his arms over his chest. Danny just let out a hum.
“And I’m not your favorite rogue,” he said with a cheeky smile. Sure, Robin couldn’t particularly see his face under his weird little mask but Robin still knew that Danny was smirking at him.
“You’re not. I don’t have a favorite, I hate all of you equally,” Robin stated, letting out a huff of annoyance. Danny just leaned forward and poked his cheek.
“Whatever,” he cooed before he let out another giggle and snatched a few of Robin’s weapons before he jumped off the side of the building and disappeared.
“Shit,” he heard Robin mutter above him. Danny just snickered and took off running as Robin chased after him.
…
There was a new kid at Dick’s school and he wasn’t sure how he felt about him. Danny was up his ass constantly. From the moment he had taken a seat beside Dick it was like he had just decided that Dick was going to be his best friend. He hated it. In all honesty, it drove him absolutely insane and Danny was lucky that he was cute.
Wait. He wasn’t cute. He wasn’t. He was annoying beyond belief and Dick hated him.
“Hi Dicky!” Danny exclaimed before taking a seat beside the vigilante. “Is this seat taken?”
“Now it is,” Dick said with a huff. Danny just rolled his eyes and smiled happily as he started to talk to Dick about only God knows what. That is, until he mentioned something in particular that piqued Dick’s interest.
“I saw Robin jumping across some roofs last night! I know we can only see part of his face but isn’t he cute? I mean he has this super adorable smile and ancients,” Danny swooned, a dreamy smile on his face. Barb snorted from her place across the lunch table but said nothing else as she took a bite of her sandwich.
“You think Robin’s cute?” Dick asked, feeling a blush rise on his cheeks.
“Well yeah, he’s super cute. It’s a shame he’s dating that Red X guy,” Danny said with a forlorn sigh causing Barb to start choking on her sandwich. Dick gave her the side eye before he glared at Danny.
“Who told you they were dating?” He demanded.
Danny just shrugged. “It’s all about subtext. Have you not seen the BooTube video compilations of the two of them? They’re definitely banging.”
“What!?” Dick shouted, nearly having a heart attack. “They’re enemies! Like mortal enemies, Robin hates him. Besides, he doesn’t even know what Red X looks like under his mask, how could he even think he’s cute if he can’t see him? I mean sure, he’s got amazing body language and a voice of a god but come on,” Dick spluttered before he froze, feeling both Barb and Danny staring at him in surprise.
“Uh, Dick?” Barb said, raising an eyebrow at her friend’s outburst. Dick just sighed and pushed his hair back.
“Or at least, that’s how I interpret it, I mean,” he said with a shrug. “How would I know? I don’t know Robin or Red X but Robin definitely isn’t dating or banging Red X.”
Danny just gave him a sly smile. “If you say so, Tweety Bird,” he said in a teasing voice that had Dick’s eyes narrowed. It couldn’t be. There was no way that Danny knew about that.
…
Danny phased through the window of the museum and took a look around. Dorathea had told him that Aragon’s amulet had been found and taken to a museum but so far, Danny hadn’t seen anything of it and he had checked so many ancient’s damned museums at this point that he thought he was going to lose his mind.
“Museums usually aren’t your style. What’re you doing here?” He heard Robin ask. Danny looked up at the vigilante and grinned.
“I’m just taking a look around. I don’t get to go during the day now that I’m back in school so I gotta enjoy museums at night now, instead,” he said before slinking towards Robin. “What’d you get on question ten on our chemistry homework? I’ve been wracking my brain over it all night and I just can’t figure it out,” he said with a dramatic sigh.
Robin tilted his head. “Danny?”
“Bingo, Tweety Bird,” Danny said, clicking his teeth together. “Now, are we going to do the whole song and dance thing tonight or are you going to let me enjoy the museum? You can come with me, you know? Have a nice little date?”
Robin leered at him for a moment. “So, all that stuff you said about Red X and Robin dating?” He asked, stepping forward.
Danny just shrugged his shoulders. “What can I say? I’m like those little boys who pull on the pigtails of the girl he likes. Except I just like fighting you and driving you crazy,” he said and held out his hand. “So what do you say? Midnight museum date.”
The vigilante let out a scoff. “I’m not going on a date with you,” he said while taking Danny’s hand nonetheless. “I’m just going to stay with you to make sure you don’t steal anything,” he said, looking down at their intertwined gloved hands. Danny just smiled happily and swung their hands between them.
…
Danny watched in horror as Joker shot Robin in the shoulder. Fuck this was bad, this was super bad. He listened to Joker let out a cackle and let himself turn invisible. Danny didn’t know where Batman nor Batgirl were at the moment but he was not about to let this clown fucker hurt his nemesis. He floated towards Joker slowly looking like a ghost on a mission. He wasn’t currently in his Red X suit, he wasn’t even really supposed to be here. He had just heard a gunshot and his body had jumped into action before he could stop it.
He was glad he had done so considering his rival looked like swiss cheese at the moment. Danny looked around the warehouse for a moment before he spotted a pipe and scooped it up in his hand before he swung it hard, hitting Joker in the back of the head as hard as he could.
Joker fell anticlimactically. Danny dropped the pipe and turned visible once more before he ran over to Dick.
“Fuck, fuck,” Danny hissed looking over the vigilante in front of him. “Why are you so fucking stupid? Taking on the Joker? By yourself?” he demanded counting the bullet holes in Dick’s body. One in the thigh, one in the abdomen and another in the shoulder. This wasn’t good. This was not good at all.
Robin let out a pain filled chuckle. “Wasn’t on purpose,” he muttered and looked up at Danny. “I sent an emergency alert to Batman and Batgirl. They should be here soon.”
“Yeah well, not soon enough, you’re bleeding really fucking bad,” Danny said before he bit his lip. “Okay, I’m gonna do something really weird but you can’t question it and I’ll tell you all about it later.”
“Danny, just do whatever you’re gonna do and get it done with,” Dick said with a sigh. Danny nodded and turned his hand intangible before he reached into Dick’s shoulder and pulled the bullet out carefully before he froze the wound over with his ice, keeping the gunshot wound from bleeding any more.
“You owe me a date for this. A nice one, Robin, with dinner and flowers and the whole nine yards,” Danny mumbled before pulling the bullet out of Dick’s stomach, leaving ice behind. He did the same with the final one in his thigh.
“I promise, I’ll take you on a date. A great date, best date you’ve ever been on,” Dick said with a sigh when Danny picked him up carefully and started out of the warehouse before Joker woke up and caused more problems.
“I’m going to hold you to it, Tweety Bird,” Danny said with a sigh, shoulders slumping in relief when the Batmobile started driving forward. “And that’s my cue to go, call me later Handsome.”
With that, Danny set Dick down to lean against the wall of the warehouse before he turned invisible and watched as Batman rushed out of the car to grab Dick.
…
Robin let out a growl of annoyance as he punched Red X in the chest, knocking him back a few steps. “Are we really doing this right now?” He demanded as Danny twirled some kind of weapon in his hand.
He and Danny literally had a date the next day, did his boyfriend really need to cause trouble for him right now?
“Sorry Pretty Bird, but you’re gonna have to hit me harder than that,” Danny cooed, doing a backflip to avoid a batarang from hitting him. Dick let out a groan.
“Why are you even playing with that thing? How did you even get it?”
“Mr. Freeze left it during his last fight with the B-man!” Danny said happily as he observed the gun and holding it out before him, posing dramatically with the freeze gun. “I just played around with it until I could use it to better control my own ice! Isn’t that cool? I was thinking about testing it out by freezing over Penguin’s club. Guy still owes me some money for a hit I did for him a few weeks ago. Might need to remind him of that. Or I could freeze everything over and make it look like good ol’ Freezy did it and start a fight between the two!”
“That’s a terrible idea,” Dick deadpanned, giving his boyfriend the look ™ .
“Whatever,” Danny mocked. “You’re just mad because you’re a goody goody and Batman would never let you do something like that. Now, let me go like a good birdy and I’ll see you tomorrow, Handsome.”
“Red X! Put the freeze gun down,” Robin said, stomping his foot.
Danny snorted. “That was attractive. I’ll see you later Pretty Bird,” he said before stepping off the roof and falling to the ground. Dick just threw his head back and groaned. Why did he like this jerk?
…
Danny pressed a kiss to Dick’s pouty lips and smiled. “Quit pouting, it was minimal damage,” he teased, holding Dick’s hands in his. “No one even got hurt.”
“I did,” Dick mumbled, pointing at his sprained ankle. Danny giggled and rested his head on Dick’s shoulder, arms wrapped around the vigilante’s waist.
“You slipped on ice babe. That was no one’s fault but your own,” he teased. Dick just let out a huff and pulled away from Danny only to tug him to his bed.
“Whatever. It still hurts and you said you were coming over to take care of me, not be a jerk,” he complained. Danny just rolled his eyes and set a freezing cold hand on Dick’s ankle. Dick knew about his powers but he just thought that Danny was a super overpowered meta, Danny still hadn’t figured out a way to tell the guy about his half dead status. But that was a conversation for a different time. Right now, he had to use his powers to take the swelling down in Dick’s ankle.
“Is B still mad at me?” Danny asked, rubbing Dick’s ankle soothingly.
“Yup. Majorly pissed at Red X for causing the fight between Penguin and Freeze,” Dick said with a huff. “Good thing he still hasn’t learned who X’s civilian identity is, huh?”
Danny smirked. “Yeah, Red X is pretty sneaky like that. Probably one of the most talented rogues you guys have ever encountered if I do say so myself.”
“Shut up,” Dick said with a snort. Danny just pouted and gave the teenager a soft kiss. He still couldn’t get over how lucky he was to have Dick in his life.