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Reveal looked around at her captives, she had managed to get Nightwing, Red Robin, Robin, Black Bat, Spoiler, and Signal. She knew she wouldn’t keep them for long, but it would be long enough for her need to sow unrest in the hero community. If she could succeed with the tight knit group of bats she could destroy any group.
“Welcome heroes, to my home.”
Nightwing smiled, “Hello, it’s very nice but we really do need to be going.”
Spoiler nodded, “Yep, my tubs on fire and I really need to turn off my cat.”
The entire room turned to stare at her for a moment, before Reveal turned to the table next to her, “Be that as it may I just have a few questions for you all before you leave, and I’m certain the entire world, or at least the internet, is dying to know the answers.”
Red Robin frowned, “Questions? All you want is answers? Not some sort of violence?”
“No, I have no need for violence. I will make you reveal your inner selves and drive you apart once you know the others’ secret desires.”
Robin scoffed, “Like we will answer any questions to the like of you.”
Reveal picked up the gas bomb as she held a gas mask to her face, “You won’t have a choice.” Throwing the bomb in the middle of the circle of heroes she watched as they were each forced to take several breaths before hitting the fan to clear the gas away and make it safe for her to take off the mask, “Now for our first question, each of you will answer one after another starting with Nightwing and go around the circle, understand?”
Nightwing ground his teeth as he spoke, “Yes.” Quickly followed by Robin, Black Bat, Signal, Red Robin, and then Spoiler.
Reveal clapped her hands, “Perfect now first question. Who do you want to kill?”
“The Joker,” Nightwing’s lack of a reaction surprised her, most people acted shocked after answering that question, often scared.
Turning to Robin she hoped for more of a reaction but she failed to get one.
“Jack Oswald White, Grandfather, Catalina Flores.” Robin didn’t even blink as the names rolled off his tongue, or at Nightwing’s expression at the last name.
Black Bat’s hands moved but she didn’t speak to Reveal’s confusion as Signal spoke next.
Signal shrugged, “Joker.”
Red Robin calmly stated, “Joker, Ra al Ghul.”
Spoiler smiled, “Joker for me too!”
Reveal looked around annoyed at the lack of a reaction, a group of heroes declaring who they wanted to kill and none of them even looked more surprised than Nightwing’s odd glance at Robin, “Well that was anticlimactic, I want some panic some disgust so how about,” she tapped a finger on her lips, “Oh how would you like to kill them.”
“Same way as last time, but without Batman reviving him.”
Before Robin could start she demanded, “Before?”
“I beat him to death with a crowbar, I’d do that again.”
Robin nodded, “I also would beat Jack Oswald White to death with a crowbar, grandfather I’m unsure how to make it stick and behead Catalina Flores.”
Black Bat signed again before Signal spoke, “Shoot him.”
Spoiler kept smiling, “Crowbar to the head.”
Reveal frowned at Black Bat, “How are you avoiding answering my questions?”
Robin scoffed, “Obviously she is using sign language. If you must know, her first answer was Joker and the second was with her fists.”
Reveal narrowed her eyes at him, “Future questions you will tell me what she says.”
Robin rolled his eyes, “Fine.”
Reveal looked over the group, still no outraged expressions or guilty looks. She had been so certain murder would have done it with Batman’s clear rule but she had other questions that had the most people reacting how she wanted them to. “Alright if that wouldn’t cause unrest in this group, then how about, and you can use superhero names, I’m trying to out your deepest desires not anyone’s identities. So who do you most want to fuck?”
“Red Hood.” Nightwing’s face blushed a dark red, “I, uh.”
Red Robin snorted, cutting him off, “Everyone but Hood has noticed you checking him out, and you’re the only one who hasn’t noticed him staring at your ass.”
At the same time Robin answered, “I have no interest in a sexual relationship at my age.” Glancing at Black Bat’s hands he continued, “Black Bat chooses her girlfriend.”
Signal blushed, “No one in particular? I mean I like girls but I’m not thinking about anyone-”
Red Robin cut him off, “Superboy.”
Spoiler smiled at Black Bat, “My girlfriend.”
Reveal glared around the room, a possibly mutual attraction was all she got? Fuming trying to figure out something that would embarrass them, not noticing sound coming from outside the room, “Who, of the bats, do you least like working with and why?”
Nightwing’s blush was back full force as he answered, “Red Hood, his thighs are distracting.”
Robin scoffed, “Red Hood, he treats me like a child needing to be protected. Black Bat is saying me as she is worried about me getting injured and not telling her.”
Before Duke had a chance to answer the door to the room was kicked off it’s hinges as Red Hood stormed into the room, “What the fuck is going on?”
Nightwings quick and clear response managed to cover up the answers of the other three.
Red Hood was wearing his helmet so they couldn’t see his expression as he held Reveal at gunpoint, “Alright antidote now. Or I’ll start with your knee caps.”
Reveal scowled, reaching towards another gas bomb, “Don’t you have any questions you want to ask first? Any question, they’ll have to answer.”
Red Hood tilted his head to the side, “Actually, Demon Brat, where did you hide my cleaning kit in my apartment in the east side?”
Robin scowled, “In the back of the cupboard containing Nightwing’s cereal.”
“Huh, that was nice, now antidote.”
Annoyed she couldn’t get him to tear apart the family by asking questions she threw the antidote bomb on the ground and stayed where she was as the heroes got free, it’s not like she could flee in time and she didn’t want to get shot so she waited to get arrested, it’s not like she was likely to get more than a slap on the wrist for this in Gotham. She’d be free in weeks most likely, and then she would need to think of better questions and, glancing between Nightwing and Red Hood, and possibly get different subjects.