Getting ready for the first time

"Is that really your costume, Gray?" Tim asked me as we are in the Batcave and we're getting ready for my first patrol as a "cape."

"Yeah it is, I made it myself. You got a problem with it?" I answered and asked him as I was putting my forearm wraps on.

"Nah, just that it is tacky just like you," Tim said to me, and he got a kick in his chin for his response.

"Are you ready for your first patrol ever, Gray?" Dick asked me as he was adjusting his escrima sticks and checking to see if they were charged all the way.

"Not at all. I mean, I am ready, just I am still trying to mentally prepare myself for tonight," I said to him honestly, because there's no point in lying about it either. Lying over little things like that makes no sense at all.

"Yeah, we all felt that way on our first patrol too," Dick said to me to make me feel better, and it did kind of work.

"Speak for yourself, Grayson," Damian said to Dick as he was sharpening his katana on a whetstone. His form was decent on how he was sharpening. I mean, he was doing it correctly, but how he had it angled would not make it as sharp as he wanted.

"Do it at a 165-degree angle and do it a little more gently, yet still be firm," I said to Damian, and he paused, then looked at me for a few seconds, and then did as I advised him.

"You know how to sharpen swords?" Jason asked me as he was cleaning his guns and loading some mags with rubber bullets. He still had some mags with real ones; it's just that from what I know, he sometimes uses rubber ones so Bruce will shut up about it.

"Yeah, and a bunch of other things too," I answered him as I walked over to where he was sitting on the floor, cleaning and putting his guns back together.

I had gotten a wicked idea that was going to be hell for all the thugs here in Gotham, so I sat across from him, then I said to him, "I know a rune to put on a gun to silence it almost to a whisper."

He paused, then broke out a cat-like grin as he said to me while looking me in the eyes, "Go on."

"Well, you see, there is a rune for everything and anything, and I mean that 100%, like there is a rune that you can put on a rock and make it into a bomb depending on how much magical energy you put into it—wait, I am getting off track. Anyways, as I was saying, there are many runes that I can put on guns to make them better."

He looked at all his guns on the floor, then he grabbed his Desert Eagle, handed it to me, and said, "Do it."

I smiled widely as I summoned my Magical Backpack, then I reached into it and took out things that are used to carve into metal. Now, I am going to mention this now because I didn't earlier, as it wasn't really that big of a thing, but Bruce put three of every tool and two of every machine in my workshop, so I put one of everything into my Magical Backpack in case I need to make something on the fly quickly, like now.

Anyways, I started to get to work on putting the rune of silence. Now, there are many versions of the rune of silence, but the one I am doing is for a gun. I don't think I have explained runes well enough. Runes are the best and worst thing ever for a Crafter because, in all reality, there are an infinite amount that I know. Also, there are runes that belong to races like elves, faes, and a bunch of other races. I also know runecraft from FATE like Primordial Runes, but I am not touching those things because that is a whole different level of bullshit, so I will not be touching those until I can at least destroy a planet in one hit.

"Sooo, how exactly did you get this info?" Duke asked me as he sat next to me, watching me work.

"A book that I found," I lied to him and everyone, because I knew damn well they were paying really close attention to me now to get info out of me, which I don't judge at all because this whole family is paranoid really bad. I do wonder what my file looks like that Batman has on me.

"Really?"

"Yep."

"Anyways, let's change the subject a little bit. Let me ask, what all can you do with your healing abilities?" Dick asked me while he started to stretch his body to get ready for the night.

"A lot of things, but I will give you a summary of them," I said to them. And now, before anyone starts to bitch about me telling them my powers, I am only going to tell them the ones that they need to know. So I said to them, "I can heal almost anything cleanly to where it leaves no scars or anything like that, but that will take time if I don't use a move I made called [Healer Touch]. I can exorcise, purify, reverse mutations, undo brainwashing, and remove cybernetics. And lastly, I can scan a person's body, mind, and soul with a single touch."

"You can read minds while touching that person?"

"No. Me scanning the mind means I can see how a person is doing mentally, like to see if they are suffering from any mental trauma that I can heal or at least help a person recover from without erasing completely. But no, I cannot read minds, plus I would never want to do that because that feels nasty to do."

"…What is the limit to your ability to cleanse a person?" Jason asked me slowly, and I am pretty sure he is asking because of the Lazarus in him.

"Oh, I can cleanse whatever the fuck is that green shit in your body that healed you in a disgraceful way," I said to him with venom, because I really hate the Lazarus pit a lot.

"You scanned me?"

"No, but I feel that nasty shit oozing out of you, and it really pisses me off horribly."

"And why is that, Gray?" Bruce asked me as he turned away from the Batcomputer and looked at me.

"Because whatever the hell healed him did it wrong, because it did it without care and balance and forcefully," I answered Bruce as I gave Jason his gun back because I was done putting the rune on it. Then I said, "Now, my healing does it where it involves healing the mind, body, spirit, all in harmony. Like if you were to get shot, then I would heal the wound and your mind from the pain that is coming from the wound. Now, the soul does not really need to get healed if you get attacked by something that does not affect the soul, but if you heal it with the body and mind, it makes the healing process easier and more peaceful for the person being healed."

"You are very passionate about healing," Bruce commented about my little rant.

And in response to that I said, "Of course I am, because most people think healing is just fixing, but it's actually like if you were to find a broken bird; you have to cradle it gently with care, and you've got to honor the fracture, not ignore it. That is art. That is harmony." I said to Bruce as I looked him in the eyes, then I said, "People ain't engines. You don't just swap out parts and call it fixed. You don't take a soul, chuck it in a pit full of anger and resurrection sludge, and pretend they're 'healed,' like whatever did to Jason here, because that is fake healing, and I fucking hate that shit with my very damn soul."

The whole cave went kind of quiet after I went on that rant because I did kind of raise my voice a little bit and got emotional. In all reality, the Essence of Healer has affected me a little bit, but it was honestly not that bad of a change for me, and I guess it made me a bit less selfish and more open to saving people who I don't know for nothing in return. But I guess that is what being a healer is all about.

"Oh, also on a side note, I unlocked my meta-gene, and it is pyrokinesis," I said as I lit my whole arm on fire to prove it to them, and they all stared at my arm.

"What the fuck kind of bullshit is that?!" Jason said as he stared at my arms in disbelief, then he said, "You got healing powers, and now you're a pyrokinetic? Like, what kind of bullshit is that?!"

"And how did you unlock your metagene exactly?" Stephanie asked.

"Yeah, no. I am not going to say how I did that because I will get scolded, so no," I said to her and kind of to everyone, because they would kind of freak out a little bit, I think.

Now, I did not really explain properly what exactly I did with the whole mana overload, because I read on Reddit back in the 'real' world that, in theory, what I did should work, and it did, but there was a chance of me erupting everything because I kind of did pour pure energy into every part of my body. Now, I cannot go into detail on how exactly that worked because I don't know that much about the whole process like that.

But I can tell y'all what that did to me and my body: I became a walking bomb, in the simplest terms. Also, I could have ruptured my brain by accident, aka making me brain dead. Now, that would not affect me like that because I would have been fine after a while, as my regenerative ability would heal me up after some time.

"Anyways, I think that we should get going now because the sun is down in 10 minutes, so I prefer if we go into our own positions, with Gray being with me and Bruce, because we've been doing this the longest, so it would be better if we taught him how to do this thing," Dick said to us, and I think he also said it to change the subject. Then he asked me, "What is your hero name?"

"Well, I decided it would be Narya."

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[AN: Hello Goblins, it your favorite Hispanic Daddy here with a new chapter so be happy or daddy will be angry.

I am finally back in Texas after about almost a whole month of being in Puerto Rico and I happy about being in AC again after so long.

Should he try to learn flash-step cause like it would be funny if Gray was to flash-step on then does a fire blackflash on them, also I have have already kind of got the whole explanation on how the flash-step work made down.

And here is what I am going to do with his fighting style is going to be dirty boxing, muay thai, and a little bit of krav maga for his attacks cause for me personally a huge fan of muay thai kicks cause those fuckers hurt like hell and boxing foot is good too cause I personally use a orthodox like stance and a slugger and for krav maga is for the grabs that is have and how he will use his body cause I am going to make it where he gain some more weight so his body movement will be capoeira-style spin momentum cause his pyrokinesis will act like Shinra powers for it and then pro-wrestling slams like people really underestimate it a lot cause some of those slams can paralyze a person forever is do wrongly or worse kill someone cause if you were to watch real pro-wrestling and done it then you will know how easy it is to hurt someone with it, and finally his flames will mostly use to like to boost his attack speed in the way like he is throwing a punch and he have fire come out of his elbow to add more impact to the punch. And he will also use somethings from other fighting styles too.

Now I know a bit about fighting cause I practice MMA a decent amount, and my stance like I wrote earlier is a boxing orthodox like stance cause that is what allow me personally move better for my legs movements, and now my whole fighting is a fix of kickboxing, muay thai, brazilian jiu jitsu, judo, wrestling and some other moves from different martial arts, now I am 5'7 and 190 pounds so I am heavy for someone my height.

Anyways have a good day or daddy will be angry at y'all and then I will have to tickle those toes]