Chapter 3: The path of a Hero
That day, Mallory, Diggle and Marisa buried three of their most beloved one. Ironically, it was a one the most sunny day in this winter. Not even a tiny speck of cloud could be spotted. That turn Marisa's mood more depressed than ever. But because she heard the speech of his son, she decided to not showing it.
Her son was four, but he was already that mature. When she heard him, it was like he will taking care of them instead of her. With that kind of son, how could she possibly act likd the spoiled kid here? "No, I have to grip myself and be strong for my husband and my best friend. I can't let the kid down and tears all the days like I did those past two weeks. Especially since I knew that with his mentality, Dig probably blame himself for his father's death and Mallory think that she cause her parent's death from having that nightmare" with a look renewed and clearer ideas, she threw the dirt in her hand on the grave. When she did that, it was like most of pain she had, was transferred in that dirt, making her felt more comfortable.
After that tragedy, the Troswer family had new path to look up to, but for Mallory, that was clearly not the case. Being a true kid almost reaching 4, normally she would have cried for her parents death and then forget after sometimes. She had a great memory, but she wasn't a reincarnated one. But the problem was that she saw her parents death more clearly than if she had been there when it's happened. And because the day before their deaths Diggle told him that she could see the future, she knew that the nightmare she had, was a vision of the futur. Kids are candid but not stupid. Not to this point. Because of that, she was blaming herself to not have been able to warning them.
After the funerals were over, Mallory went directly to she considered to be her shield after her parents, Diggle. "Mama and papa died, nobody will bring me to see you anymore, snif... I don't want that, but I'm alone now. What should I do?" she started to sobb in front of him not knowing where were the North anymore, but like it was what she was expecting from him, Diggle hug her whisper in her ears some words of comfort" It's OK, it's ok. You'll live with us starting from now, we will take care of you. I will take care of you, and never let you alone so it's okay now" "But..But why did my parents had to die? They said on TV that bad people were killed. My parents were bad people?" hearing that, Diggle almost wanted to crie why did she watch that kind of thing, but he restrain himself and explain as best he could "Your parents were good peoples, but it was the bad peoples who kill them" at what she replied by murmuring "Bad peoples are meanies! Now I will never see my parents again!" This time, Diggle didn't know what to say, he just hug her more tightly witch she responded by leaning her head in his shoulder before sleeping from exhaustion caused by the trauma.
The moon could already be spotted when the three get back home. With Mallory still in his arms, Diggle went to his room to put her in the bad. It's been a few minutes now since his then and he surprised himself by staring at her angelic face for a while now and he finally noticed he sigh "If I had a little sister like her in my previous life, I would probably never end up like that" he think in heart before putting a sad face "But I don't think I would have deserved a sister like that anyway. I mean because of me both my fathers died. And if not for me being here, you will never have those eyes causing the death of your parents. It seems that my previous mother did have right reasons for hating me, I'm a jinx for everyone" He then took an oath in his heart "That why I will take my responsibility and protect you no matter what might happen in the future. If not, I won't be able to make it for your parents"
After swearing, he made the move to left, but was stopped by a sleepy voice "Say Dig, why the police didn't save my parents? It's not their duty to save peoples ?" hearing that, Diggle was more in pain than he ever thought, but he couldn't say the truth "Well, normal heroes like policemen can't be everywhere. And even then, they are far too few against all the bad guys in this city" that half-honest respond made Mallory panick "But...but that mean the villains won every time?!?" "So even kids can figure it out the mess in this city hun?" thought Diggle in sigh. But fortunately, he knew that this situation wouldn't stay like that. "Well not necessarily, if a normal hero isn't enough, we have to call for a superhero" Mallory was silent for a moment before saying with resolution "I have super powers thanks to you, then I can be a super hero who will save the people right? Like the JSA mama was always talking about I can become a superhero right?"
That proclamation surprised Diggle a moment before he wanted to immediately denied her idea. But he was then stopped by her gaze. All he could see in her eyes wasn't the called desire of revenge like the Batman at the beginning, but true desire to help people so don't live what she went through to. "The moment of decision, Huuuh? Right dad?" he thought before saying while smiling "That true, you can become a super hero, but not know your too small and me too. Beside, soon, like I said this morning in four years I think, a true superhero will born so there's nothing to worry about. You will have all the time you want to become full-fledge and grown-up superhero" "Four is too long, why is this guy taking so much time?" pouted Mallory making Diggle laugh "haha he's training so can be one of the best superheroes in the world. And we will also do a training us too or else we won't be able to fight the bad guys"
Mallory nodded seriously at words with strong fighting spirit emitting by her, but the second after "But Dig, we will train for how long? Not four years that superhero who take his time right" "Hey, hey! You're talking about Batman right know show at least some respect!" He scream in head while showing a wry smile "No, we will train for much longer, at least until we turn fifteen, I forbid you to become a hero" "Haaah?! But it's seems much longer than him no? It's will take ever to reach that age! I will be too old!" "Well you coincide fifteen like old, wait until you reach your twenty hahaha" Diggle laugh in head.
After that, he made Mallory promise that she won't play superhero before turning fifteen and also to never talk about their power. He made the excuse that because if his mother knew, she will also know that they wants to become superhero and forbid them to. She promised for both, trusting completely friend.
During the next year, despite the death of her husband and Mallory's parents, Marisa never once show a sad face since the funerals in front of them. And because it was his husband who initially pay the rent, she never had worked the first month she did all she could to find a job. But fortunately she didn't have to.
The 27 December, one day before Mallory's birthday Marisa buy a lottery ticket. Because she didn't really believed in her luck, she didn't care what number she should write, so she ask the children to do it for her. And Mallory did it. When the results were out she was surprised to find out that she won. Becoming billionaire, she then used her money to buy three pastry shop and because her hidden talent in management, she successfully made her pastry shops famous in the city earning a lot.
But despite that success, Diggle wasn't happy. Since the funerals he started his training with Mallory. Because of their age he goes easy in their body to not disturbing their growth. So he principally work on agility and reflex with her than strengthen their body. Diggle didn't care much about those training, because he knew that becoming strong in one day wasn't a realistic thing, even superman couldn't. But still, there was two things who upset him. Two and a half in way even.
First, was his abilities! No matter how much he tried, he couldn't makes his power of building materials works. He didn't have systems and the voice in his head renamed Z by him told him that he wasn't going to help him because this was a part of his trial.
If this was the only problem, he could manage, but it was almost the same problem for his air ability! He just couldn't control it! At first he even thought that he didn't have any, but two month after getting his abilities, he saw Mallory sneeze, and it made him remember that when Clark Kent did that, all things around will fly away. But as he thought about that, he sneezed too and....made the stuff in the house fly away. He was so excited, that day, that he didn't care about how he turned his house upside down. But unfortunately, he didn't succeed to trigger his ability again. But three month later in his school, in the nap time, he was took in urge to moan. And when he automatically bring his hand to his mouth, he suddenly felt his hand charged with power, and blast of wind strike directly to his head. Fortunately he was already laying and the blast wasn't that powerful so he didn't have injuries but that freak him out ten long minutes. After that, his ability start to trigger arbitrarily more and more often. But he still couldn't control it, because he didn't know what was the cause of it. And what irritating him the the most was that it took only two weeks for Mallory to grasp the control of her abilities and only three to fully control it somehow. Because sometimes when its really important, her ability will trigger himself but most of the time she could control her power.
The second thing that made him mad was his mother. At first, he thought that like his previous mother, it won't take long before she lashed at him, but even after waiting for two month, she never get made at him or reproach him anything. Instead, she tried to get even more closer with him. Thinking that all of this was just pretence, Diggle did the opposite and start avoiding his mother every time as soon as he could. Obviously her mother knew why he was doing that, but all the attempts of his son to ditch her never get over her and she still tried to connect with him. And this continues for almost two years until one day in the middle of autumn.
That day, Mallory and Diggle were on the rooftop of their house under the watch of their mother for mother for their training. All things went fine until Diggle while having his arms spread to keep balance on the edge of the roof did a slight moment with his finger. But when that happened he felt the familiar surge of power crossing his body and then Bam! He was blown away of three good meters from the roof. If someone wasn't watching closely, they will think that he jumped willingly. But obviously, Diggle wasn't prepared for this sudden jump and started to panic ashe was falling. Fortunately, her mother was there and caught him in mid-air before he slam the ground.
After catching him, Diggle's mother started to cry scared and said that she didn't want to lose anyone again. Unable to restrain himself, Diggle asked her why never blame him for his father's death. The reply was a simple "What kind of monster a mother would be to blame his son for his father's death when it was all an accident? I blame that driver instead for not having noticed you in time!" Those honest sentences got straight to his heart, tearing the darkness inside. For the first time in his both life, Diggle felt an enormous weight quiting him. It's was like even if suddenly it was getting to rain, for him the day will still look beautiful. And when he felt that, he finally understand that inside his heart, he was always the little boy of four years old from his previous life waiting for his mother to apologise. Because that's right, that was an accident. How could he possibly know that the truck will kill kill his father? And how could he want to kill his father?
But he knew that those apologiesb and words would never come no matter how much time he will wait for them. But strangely, when his second father died, it was like a second chance for him to finally close the bleeding in his heart. And the words from Marisa did the job. Making him finally truly moving on.
And like those words were magic spells, one week later, Diggle start to notice that he could finally somehow control his ability a little.
Time passed, and two years pass in a flash. To day was January 4th 2000 one day before Bruce Wayne 26th birthday but especially, to day the day Bruce comes back in Gotham and the day, after the failure of Diggle's father because of his death, the police will start his clean up. James aka 'Jim' Gordon was going settle down in Gotham with his pregnant wife Barbara.
Diggle pretext sickness to not go to school so he could watch on TV the arrival of his idol Bruce Wayne. He even took a VHS to record the the moment. And if one wasn't enough, he prepared many of them in case. He knew from the comics that when Bruce will get out of the plane he will go straight to his home without a stop, but he didn't care. All he wanted now was to see even a glimpse of him.
In the Station of Gotham.
From a train at the end, a man with square glasses a mustache and short red hair start to get out of the train with his luggage. As he took out a cigarette to smoke, he start thinking "Hahh, was it really a good idea to move here with Barbara pregnancy? I heard about the reputation of this city that I can almost think even the GCPD is corrupt haha. Man, I'm not certain taking that promotion here was a good idea" As the a man of action, James Gordon didn't fear some gangs in the streets or those mafioso in Gotham, but now that he was gonna be a father, he started to think about the security out of fear for s'his wife and child well-being. As he was walking in deep thought leisurely, he didn't notice the hand who was saying hello to him. But when owner of the hand called his name, he finally look ahead to find well built tall man hand Holding in front of him "Gordon! Lieutenant James Gordon! Name's Flass lieutenant. Detective Flass. Commissioner Loeb sent me to make sure you didn't miss your appointment with him" Gordon shook his hands and start to reply "Well, I..." But was immediately cut by the detective "Mind if I call you Jimmy? Welcome to Gotham Jimmy! It's not as bad as it looks. Especially if you're a cop. Cop got it made in Gotham" he assured as he lead the path. "Well at least, the GCPD is respected, that's good" Thought Gordon with a more optimistic view of his new city.
Wayne's Manor
A 1.88 meter man with brown hair stood in front of two graves with nostalgia in his eyes. "Mom, dad. My training is finally complete, I can finally start my plan to clean this city. Wait a little bit longer. After I found out what I'm missing to get out to work, I will start and look for your murderer so I can get justice"
Noon, in The Troswer's House
"As expected from Bruce Wayne! he's acting was so good, that if I didn't knew beforehand, I would have think that passed his years in some beach or something for decompressing for his parents death" Thought excitedly Diggle. "So now I should probably start to search for the street where Serena live. This will is the likely most important moment in his life if he wants to become the batman. If I remember right, I have until March 11. Should I go help Gordon instead? Because he'll be trashed by Flass so badly that I almost have pitied on him..... Nah! It's too dangerous, I dont' have what it takes yet, even if I getting better at controlling my power, it's still to weak now, the most I can do with that is raising an umbrella to two meter from the ground for ten minutes only"
March 11, sunset in the Troswer's House
Diggle was standing in his room while threading mittens and a black Hooded Vest who prevent people to his face clearly he even wear a black scarf to hid the below of his face. "Let's go"
One week ago, Diggle finally found Serena whereabouts after many dangerous trial. If it wasn't for the training he started four years ago, he would have died more than just twice for asking what he was looking for. Peoples on the streets don't like talk to strangers.
Because he didn't know the exact hour of the event, just that it was at noon, Diggle pretend to go to bed early so he can sneak out without worrying about the time.
Well it was a good plan, but if he had go out a minutes later he would have missed when Bruce slightly disguised tried to save Serena's friend, but instead of thanking, he was beating by police agents. Diggle goes just in time to see them handcuffed him and put him in their car to the police station. Only knowing it was him because he knew how the history would be played. Fortunately he predicted the event and brought his bike with him so he could follow them.
After one hour, while following them, Diggle suddenly saw the car going crazy. Obviously Bruce woke up and was trying to escape.
After two minutes, the car crashed into a truck and because it full of oil exploded with the friction create by the collusion.
For Diggle seeing something like this bring a little trauma, but he quickly overcome it and went directly in heart of the drama.
He quickly spotted Bruce and watch him save the two cops before he started to act. He went over him with all the speed he could bring from his bike and reached him.
As he was approaching, Bruce already noticed him, and started to panic a little because someone saw him getting out from a cop's car meaning that if he went away, he would be fugitive. He start to think of a plan to get away from this mess because he was badly injured, he thought he could only run away thinking that the only thing that saved him somehow was his disguise but how wrong he was "Need some help, Mister Bruce Wayne?" Said the kid on the bike shocking Bruce because his identity was exposed already "Who...who are you? And did you recognise me?"
The kid didn't respond for a moment, but start to looking around before saying "We should probably go now mister Wayne before other peoples come" as he said that, he helped Bruce to get on the bike. Because the bike was adjustable, Bruce didn't felt uncomfortable riding, and they quickly escape from the place without saying another words to each other.
It was when Bruce almost reached his car that he start to open his mouth. "How did you you it Was me kid? And who are you?" this time, Diggle replied "My name is Diggle Troswer, if you do research you could probably found the name of my mother on Internet. She rule one of the famous company of pastry in the state. As for how I recognised you, that a secret. But a piece of advice, when you start play the vigilantes in Gotham, wear a mask" that remark, start give some ideas to Bruce. He start to view the path he should take "Thanks for the advice Diggle. If one day I have the idea to try saving someone again, I will follow your advice" they then arrived in front of the car and Bruce quickly entered into it. He was starting to loose to much blood "I hope that you won't say to anyone that you saw me Diggle, if you do that I promise you a gift" he said to Diggle witch made him smile "Don't worry mister, I don't even know you, and why would I want to talk to about a random person like you to other?" Bruce chuckled and said before leaving "I felt that even if I don't want to, I will see you again"
As he watch the car goes away, Diggle murmured "You have no idea how much your words are true" when said that, a power who seems to never wanted to awake, finally start to emerge in him.
Wayne's Manor
Bruce Wayne was sitting on the chair near his work desk bleeding on the floor
"Father, I've tried to be patient, I've tried to wait. But I have to know. How father? how do I do it?" he then started to look the ceiling as his fingers were gripping a bell "If I ring this bell, alferd will come and stop the bleeding in time, but if do that... I felt like I loose. I have wealth, the family manor rest above a huge cave that will that will be the perfect headquarters... I even have a butler with training in combat and medicine. I have everything father, everything except patience. I'd rather die than waiting another hour, I have already waited eighteen years..." Old memories started to play in his head. The memory of that night. When he lost everything who counted for him. "Since all senses left my life..." he would never have to finish his sentence, because it was at that moment, that it comes crashing through the window without warning. Silently cames with his enormous black wings and his vampire fangs, and start to frightened you when you didn't expect it to be here.
''I have seen it before.... Somewhere" he comment starting to touching into something "It frightened me as a boy...Yes father FRIGHTENED ME...." Bruce's eyes start to shine "Yes. Father. I shall become a bat" and a bell ring.
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Arikawane
Arikawane Normally, the released was supposed to be much much earlier but I had some unfinished business so sorry ?.
Also, for the fans who know the comics, Yes I changed the years but try to understand me, I really didn't have the patience to wait batman to finished hiw 20 century by passing 3 to 5 time in the lazarus pond. I need him to be in he's early age when he start his job as batman and have enough technology too.
I hope You'll enjoy to read this ^^
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