Red Hood and Red Robin (Part One)

"Where the hell did I end up? Is this still Gotham?" Jason looked around. Docks, mobsters, the smell of gunpowder—and Nightwing was working alongside Batman to fight a robot.

"Looks like Gotham, all right, but since when was Batman this weak?" Watching a robot chase Batman around left Jason thoroughly confused.

"Amazo. A high-tech, fully automated robot that absorbs metahumans' powers for its own use," Batman explained to Nightwing, ducking beneath two laser beams. "He has human weaknesses."

"He even has Superman's powers?" Jason flew above Batman.

"That voice—how is that possible?" Nightwing and Batman looked up together, then both froze.

"An interesting opponent. Leave this one to me, gentlemen." Flames coiled around Jason as he stood on the pitch-black Thundercloud. A blade formed from magic coated the crowbar in his hand, and the face growing on it let out a sinister laugh. Above his head, a magic circle formed glintblades, ready to fire.

"...What the hell is that?" Nightwing and Batman's mouths fell open together. Was this Jason?

The imposing power Jason displayed caught Amazo's attention too, and he flew toward him.

"Hey—that's more like it. Come on." Jason hurled a mass of flames with one hand and swung his sword at Amazo's neck with the other.

Amazo spat out identical flames to block the attack and dodged Jason's blade, but a rope tugged at his foot. Caught off guard,

he took a thunderbolt-charged kick from Jason squarely between the legs.

"!" Amazo couldn't hold back a scream, and his upper-body defenses slackened too.

"Goodbye." Jason drove the Carian Greatsword into Amazo's head. With a series of explosions, Amazo collapsed to the ground.

"Not bad. That opponent was worth fighting." Jason smiled and slid his crowbar back into his belt. The rope on the ground wound itself back around