Chapter 152 - [AT] Orphan…

[After Transition]

It has since been three months from the day that I was brought to the Batcave and officially recruited to become a member of the bat family even if I don't plan on staying for long and so I had planned for a gruelling time training and fighting criminals but while I might've had plenty of training I haven't even had a single fight with even a Gotham city thug since Batman doesn't believe I'm ready and while usually I would be fine with chilling here training instead of putting myself at risk fighting villains out there but I've realised that the longer I spend training here the more time I'll end up staying overall with these people since they won't be able to properly trust me if we don't work properly together in the field, but it's looking like Batman's gonna make my training last another three months before I'm aloud out on the field and with my estimation of a year needed to properly gain their trust using our heroic escapades that would mean my time with the Batfamily would extend over a year and a half which is six months more than I wanted and and six months waisted when I could be doing something better but no matter how I try to convince Batman he doesn't let me take to the field even though I feel like I've been trained enough and my powers would make up for the rest but Batman is making it a point for me to be properly trained and not to rely on my powers which I understand but still don't like.

So far after Batman made sure I was at the peak of my physicality such didn't take too long as all I had to do was lift an inhuman set of weights after eating which replenished all the muscles I lost whilst starving underneath that building for two weeks and once he made sure of that he took to training me mainly focusing on my combat effectiveness and training me up so I can be as skilled as possible but he still makes sure that I learn all of the other stuff I need to learn on the side like chemistry, criminology, forensics, martial arts, gymnastics (which was easy for me because of my spider like powers, though I just blamed it on my regeneration), disguise and escape artistry all of which I've been finding quite interesting, not to mention all of the sparring I've been having to do with them and although I got the Batarang throwing down pretty easily because of my incredible accuracy still had to have them teach me how to use them properly and masterfully instead of just having one hundred percent accuracy and the rest of the family also help out with Alfred teaching what he can, Robin reluctantly helping me with stealth, disguise, escape artistry as well as gymnastics teaching me all sorts of tricks while Barbara helps me with technology and hacking which has been a little awkward since her misunderstanding but we've gotten past it and she apologised which helped clear the air and put us on good terms again.

While my training has all been taken care of my living situation is a little weird since we had to find a way to justify why I'm living at the Wayne mansion when I'm 18 years old and clearly not a ward so Batman had to do some finagling and create, erase and alter documents but he eventually came up with a plausible reason for me to be living at 1007 Mountain Drive with Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth and Richard Grayson and the way in which he did it while masterful is also probably the thing that was most responsible for my relationship with Dick being quite rickety because Batman validated my staying here by relating me to Dick Grayson through various documents, he ended up doing this by creating a false set of parents for me that the Grayson's (Dick's Parents) met while travelling the world as part of Haly's Cirucs (which makes it hard to find fault with the story, though not impossible) and after becoming really good friends I was made the godchild of the Grayson's before they left with the circus effectively making me and Dick god brothers and after Dick losing his parents Bruce Wayne couldn't find a reason to keep the last of his family away which is why he opened his doors to me and let me stay here so me and Dick could be close which we also have to portray in public which I have good fun with while Dick remains irritated and Batman effectively erased me being found covered in blood in New York at the age of ten and gave me a different backstory that still ends up with me being fostered by the Steins.

Of course I couldn't just be seen as a freeloader at the Wayne mansion and so Bruce Wayne pulled some strings for his wards god brother and got him working as an ȧssistant to Lucius Fox the head of R&D at Wayne Enterprises not only for his ward but because he knows I am a talent because of my PhDs in Biology, Chemistry and Computer Science (all of which are being heavily compounded thanks to my training), and Lucius Fox also knows who I am and enlists my help in making new gadgets for Batman while also teaching me a lot as well as how all of Batman's current gadgets work and while I can understand this as Batman potentially getting me a job just to keep an eye on me all the time I don't really mind since being ȧssistant to the head of R&D is a very lucrative job and since I'm not paying rent or buying daily necessities which are being provided by Batman so I'm literally raking in the dough.

I've just finished up some training by myself in the Batcave since the rest of the guys are all out on patrol fighting crime so sometimes I have to train by myself and while this kind of training is easier on me it's also a lot more boring so I finished up after working up a sweat and after that I took an nice shower before heading toward the Batcomputer in the middle of the Batcave to see what the rest of the Batfamily are up to and when I get there I can see Alfred sitting in the chair his hands dancing across the keyboards interface while talking to the members of the batfamily whenever necessary and giving aid if needed and as I come up behind him I can see all members of the Batfamily in the various displays, and it looks like they are fighting against Jonothan Crane at the moment also know as the Scarecrow and it seems like the fear obsessed lunatic doused an entire building with fear toxin and locked down the building as some sick experiment to research his fear toxins and its effects and so the Batman has gone ahead to confront Crane and stop him before he escalates things out of control while Batgirl and Robin move throughout the building knocking out all the fear induced civillians as fate as possible and while I take notice of all of them I particularly look at Robin or more importantly his new uniform.

His old uniform consisted of a green child sized baby grow that leaves half of his arms uncovered apart from the bright green gloves and all of his legs uncovered apart from his feet which are covered in bright green 'pixie' boots which are just disgusting and over that he just has a red vest with three ties keeping it closer, a black belt tying it for some reason because I don't think it's a utility belt since I can spot any pouches and over all that is a bright yellow cape that wraps around his shoulders and connects underneath his chin but for some reason attached on top is a yellow shirt collar which is part of the cape but thankfully that monstrosity has been retired (though it's still an eyesore being displayed in one of the Batcaves display cases, wish I could burn it), Robin's new costume however consists of dark green and black boots (not fuċkɨnġ pixie boots), full length dark green nearly black pants (thank god), dark green and black gloves, the torso is covered by a short sleeved bright red top with his Robin symbol on his left ċhėst though he made the executive decision to keep the yellow ties from the last costume across the middle of his torso but at least it looks better and more modern now, he has his yellow utility belt around his waist and on top of his entire ensemble he has a black cloak that reaches his calves and goes up his neck stopping at his jawline with the inside of the cloak being yellow and finally to finish it all of he has his classic eye mask on his face and all of this is a big improvement from his last costume and while Robin might be mad at me for being the reason his old costume which was an homage to his parents I'd forever retired I hope I'm the long run that that costume should've never seen the light of day on a growing boy.

Watching the display of screens I notice something on one of the displays that shock me and so I don't hesitate to ask Alfred about it, it's quite hard to see this and know that Batman and his sidekicks are busy with something else across town. "Alfred, isn't that Two Face robbing a bank? Shouldn't we be, ya know, doing something about it?" I ask confused as for all I know he might've missed it since the guy was quite old, but even still being the Batman's butler should've made him very observant. "I know Nick but there isn't much we can do, not with Batman and the rest being caught up dealing with the Scarecrow. I've already informed the authorities and hopefully they'll try to negotiate before they try to shoot the man and his crew, I know it's hard Nick but we can't be everywhere and we can't always win." Batman and his sidekicks might be caught up but I'm not and I'm seeing this as a possible opportunity to further my plans and gain their trust, Two Face might be a crazy deranged guy but at the end of the day he still a base line guy with a crew and that I can easily take out so there isn't much trouble that might happen as opposed to fighting Killer Croc, or Bane.

I quickly sprint off with Alfred still paying attention to the screens instead of me so it's not hard to disappear and head for the costume rack/display in the middle that belongs to me, I quickly alight upon my costume and stare at it in wonder for a moment while deliberating about my actions but it's still the best option and so I gaze at my black and gold costume, it's time for Orphan to make their debut…

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