[British and American] Jason Wayne's Struggle

Jason travels around, kills his "teacher" from time to time, and occasionally takes over the tasks assigned to him by Talia, increasing his experience in how to kill enemies and cause trouble in different situations.

He adapted to the world outside Gotham at a very fast speed, communicating and learning with different people, absorbing any nutrients that could help him grow like a sponge.

Until Talia sent someone to find him.

She knew that Jason had reached a bottleneck period, and was full of anger, and was eager to rush back to Gotham, so she asked someone to take a message to Jason, telling him that his current level was still not enough to return to Gotham to face Batman, so he might as well come back to her side, and she would give him a chance to go further.

Logically speaking, Jason should not have placed his trust in Talia, the "devil's daughter", but she brought Jason back from death and gave him countless learning resources. She has been helping him so far, so Jason got on the plane back to the Middle East as she said.

When they met again, Talia stared at Jason for a long time.

Jason looked uncomfortable, he frowned slightly, "Talia?"

Talia came back to her senses and raised her lips: "You have grown a lot taller. Are you six feet tall now?"

She looked so happy to express her concern that Jason couldn't give her a sour look.

He shrugged: "Two centimeters away."

But he has indeed broken the 1.80 meter mark. Jason never thought he could grow so tall. You know, when he was practicing figure skating, he thought that the impact of quadruple jumps on the joints would make him unable to grow even taller than a Dickey.

"When we first met, you were still a child, but now you are already a man. I think you will grow taller. After all, boys can grow taller before they are 20 years old."

Talia asked gently, "Did you receive the gift I gave you a few months ago? Did you like it?"

She was referring to the vibranium dagger she had sent to Jason on his eighteenth birthday.

Jason replied calmly, "Got it, thank you, I like it very much."

Talia seemed to be in a genuinely good mood, and she naturally pulled Jason's arm, motioning for him to follow.

Then Jason was told that at his current level, if he wanted to go further, he would need a better teacher, and that Lady Shiva and Bronze Tiger of the Assassin's League could train him.

These two are both top martial artists who can fight Batman in close combat with their bare hands and even gain the upper hand.

In return, Jason has to work for the League of Assassins while he studies. Of course, this is only temporary, and Jason can leave after he finishes his studies.

Jason was puzzled by this: "Are you sure? This cooperation agreement is obviously for me to take advantage."

Talia looked unfathomable: "I have my own ideas. You just need to decide whether to accept this invitation."

Jason finally agreed. Why wouldn't he? At present, joining the Assassin's League would only benefit him. Although he didn't quite understand why Talia had given him a job that included arms dealing in addition to assassination, he was indeed capable of doing these jobs.

It’s strange that he hadn’t discovered before that he had a talent for business.

Ms. Shiva is a woman who was named by Batman as "the strongest living warrior". She can predict and read the enemy's actions through their body language, and use this to gain the upper hand in battle, but this ability requires talent, and Jason is not fast in learning.

In addition, the various transactions and missions in the Middle East were indeed very challenging. Jason found that his bottleneck was indeed loosening and he was making progress.

Sure enough, the most chaotic places have the most opportunities.

Then one day, Talia led him to a yard where a child was practicing with a sword.

"He is Damian, my son. I want you to help me train him in close combat and take him with me on missions so that he can gain some experience."

He was a child who looked about 4 years old, with black hair standing up unruly and skin color slightly darker than Talia, but the contours of his facial features made Jason feel inexplicably familiar.

There are portraits of Thomas Wayne, Martha Wayne and a young Bruce Wayne in the Wayne Mansion.

Jason was always very perceptive, and he immediately asked, "What is the relationship between this kid and the old bat?"

"Well, I thought it was obvious. You know I had a history with the detective and this kid is a product of that time."

Talia smiled and said, "Jason, don't have any extra thoughts. This child is safe with me. He will grow up to be an excellent person and the successor of the Assassin's League in the future. And I will never let him be beaten to death by the Joker when he is 15 years old."

This made Jason unhappy, and then he sneered: "Why, do you think I would take this kid away from his mother for the sake of the old bat? I'm not that boring."

Talia calmly replied, "I know you won't, Damian, come here."

Damian stopped what he was doing when he heard Talia's voice, turned around and jogged over.

"Mother."

He glanced at Jason, and his expression immediately changed from respect and love for his mother to one of condescending arrogance.

"Who is this person? Why doesn't he salute me?"

Jason squatted down and grinned. “Because I don’t bow to groups other than the elderly. You’d better be respectful, little guy. I’m older than you.”

I am your second brother!

Talia introduced, "Damian, this is Jason Todd, a strong man. He will guide you in battle in the coming days and take you on your first mission."

Then she added: "You can't kill each other, I hope you can get along well."

However, neither Jason nor Damian had any intention of getting along well with each other. Damian said that he wanted to test whether Jason was qualified to be his teacher, and he was about to PK with Jason with a knife. Jason pinned Damian to the ground with one hand, and then laughed at Damian without any hesitation.

"You little devil, you may be small in stature, but you have a big heart. You want to defeat me with your tiny body? Wait another ten years, hahaha!"

Damian was so angry that he almost rolled his eyes.

Talia, who was watching this scene: "..."

Forget it. Unless facing extremely vicious criminals, Jason never uses force against women and children. Damian is safe with him, so let them be.

Talia turned and walked into the dark corridor.

Her lover and her children have lost the warmest and softest memories between them, and as the only one who holds on to these memories, there is only so much she can do for them.

"I so sincerely hope you're all okay."

Talia lowered her eyes. Who would have known that this "devil's daughter" had also dreamed of that long coastal highway at midnight. She was driving a convertible, and Jason was sitting in the passenger seat. He had the appearance of a mature man, with a smile from the Najim period on his face, and looked at her tenderly.

After waking up, she laughed at herself, wondering why she would still feel sad about love when she was over 30 years old. However, without that person by her pillow, she did feel lonely sometimes. Only Xia the Falcon accompanied her and told her that the past was not a dream.

Now she was the only one who remembered the road trip agreement.

Jason and Damian both have very sharp personalities, they are firm and self-centered, and once they make a decision they will not back down easily, while at the same time they are calm and meticulous, they retain their own violent tempers which they have no intention of changing.

So they get along very well, and there may be some element of like-sex repulsion.

But even so, Talia found that they didn't get along badly.

Damian studied very hard, and every time he finished a subject, the teacher would be killed. As for Jason, Damian had some murderous intent at first, and every move during sparring was aimed at the vital points. In the process of being constantly pinned down, he wanted to defeat Jason more and more, but he also developed a little respect for Jason as a strong man.

Especially after seeing Jason and Ms. Shiva fighting evenly, Damian was no longer so arrogant when facing Jason.

This kid is strong.

Jason's side is easier to understand. He is friendly to the cubs of any creature. Damian is a bit fierce, but he is also determined and brave. Sometimes Jason sees his younger self in Damian.

In short, he had a kind of respect for Damian as a "little man".

So after Damian could hit a moving target from two hundred meters away, Jason agreed to take him out on the mission.

Out of caution, he chose an assassination mission that was not difficult. Unexpectedly, even in this mission, he would encounter an accident.

The mission went smoothly. Jason took action himself, shooting the target in the head with one shot. Damian only had to fight with the minions, and then Jason took him to see the world outside the Assassin's League.

However, on the way back, they found that the nearby US military's search intensity in this area had become very large.

Jason took Damian and avoided a wave of searches. Damian lay under Jason's clothes and looked up at the helicopter flying in the sky.

"What is that? Is it related to the target we took out?"

Jason complained: "That's impossible. The guy we killed was just a nobody. The reward is not even enough for me to repair the motorcycle."

Damian retorted, "I didn't mean to damage your engine while fighting you. I meant that you shouldn't have used transportation as protection while hiding."

Jason: "You shouldn't have fought with me during the mission! If I had known you would damage my car, I wouldn't have brought you out!"

Damian puffed up his cheeks and decisively started to pinch Jason again.

Well, they were pinching each other's faces, and neither of them was willing to let go first.

At this moment, a lump of iron fell from the sky with a loud bang, and landed on the desert not far from them, splashing a large amount of sand.

Jason and Damian stopped fighting each other tacitly, and the two pairs of green eyes looked over there with the same curiosity and vigilance.

Damian: "What is that?"

Jason: "I don't know. You stay here and I'll go take a look. If anything goes wrong, turn on this communicator and notify your mother to pick them up."

He stood up, quickly and carefully crouched next to the iron lump, and then paused.

Damian stayed there for a while, and seeing Jason standing there motionless, he ran over cautiously, holding the weapon tightly in his little hands.

"Todd, who is this person? Do you know him?"

Jason came back to his senses, turned around and snatched the communicator back into his hands. When he found that Damian did not open the communication channel, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's okay, they're not enemies. I think I know why there have been search planes flying around here lately."

He got the mustache guy out of the iron lump, bent over and lifted him up. Fortunately, he worked hard enough during training, and the Lazarus Pool seemed to have some strengthening effect, allowing his strength to reach the limit of ordinary people.

Otherwise, he, who is only 170 meters tall and weighs 225 pounds, really cannot carry Tony Stark, who is meters tall and weighs pounds.

He first carried Damian and went to a village near the US military base and rented a room in a hotel.

Jason wiped Tony's wound with a handkerchief dipped in clean water, took out a tetanus injection from his belt, and gave Tony the shot.

Tony groaned and opened his eyes slightly, then Jason pinched him on the neck. He only had time to make a creaking sound before he passed out again.

Damian sighed, remembering that sometimes Jason would treat him like this when he thought he was too annoying. Later, Damian had to learn his lesson and only assassinate Jason once a day. Jason would also be patient and practice martial arts with him.

After taking care of Tony's injuries, Jason looked at the reactor on his heart, went out and bought a basket of biscuits for a local kid, and asked him to go to the base to call for help. After arranging all this, he returned to the room and nodded to Damian.

"Okay, let's go."

Damian sat on the table, his legs swaying. “Aren’t you going to say hello to this person before you leave?”

"No, I'm already dead in their eyes."

Damian uttered an "oh" and tried to jump off the table by himself, but Jason lifted him up under the armpit and held him in one hand.

The devil boy only protested with "I can walk by myself". Seeing that Jason had no intention of letting him go, he simply leaned on Jason's shoulder and snorted in dissatisfaction.

Jason closed the door, with no intention of saying goodbye to his past.

Jason did not bring Tony back to the League of Assassins because he knew that Tony Stark's wisdom and wealth were too coveted, and even Lei Xiao would be tempted to control such a person, so he sent Tony to a safe place first.

Jason thought Damian would tell other people about this, but the fact was that Damian only told Talia about it, and then the mother and son kept a "secret" attitude about this matter.

Because of this incident, Jason thought that the devil boy did have some cute qualities, and he was grateful to Talia.

By the way, before returning to the Assassin's League, Jason went to investigate in the direction where Tieluda came from, only to find that it was the base of the Ten Rings Gang.

No one knew what kind of battle had taken place there. The scene was in a mess, with traces of gunfire everywhere. Jason cleaned up the survivors at the scene.

It wasn't until he found an acquaintance who was still breathing weakly in a ruin that he brought the man back to the Assassin's League after first aid and placed him in a secret intensive care unit under Talia's jurisdiction, with a ventilator and tubes all over his body, that this buddy was able to survive.

"He has become a vegetable. Maybe he can wake up, or maybe he will sleep forever. Even if that happens, do you still want him to live? Why do you want to save such a person?"

Jason stood beside Talia, looking at the man in the ward.

"His name is Yin Sen, a doctor and engineer. His wife...Annie Yarde, was once my ice hockey fan. When I participated in the Four Continents Championships, she and her daughter presented me with flowers near the player channel and asked me to sign and take a photo with her."

Jason had a good memory. He still remembered what this man looked like in the past. At that time, Yinsen stood beside his wife and daughter. He looked gentle and elegant. He took a photo of Jason and his wife and daughter with a camera and shouted to his wife, "Hey, honey, s|mile."

Whatever the reason this man had for appearing in the Ten Rings, Jason hoped he could survive.

Talia nodded in understanding. "His hometown is Gumira. That village has been destroyed by the Ten Commandments. His wife and daughter probably didn't survive. Even if he wakes up one day in the future, he probably won't want to live."

Jason clenched his fists: "Destroyed?"

Talia replied: "The Ten Rings are a terrorist organization. For them, looting and killing are natural."

Jason took a deep breath and felt a surge of anger rising in his chest.

Talia continued, "But since you want him to live, I will arrange for him to be taken to a nursing home where he will be well taken care of."

Jason was silent for a moment, then called out, "Talia."

"Ok?"

"No matter what your purpose is in helping me like this, I am willing to accept your kindness. I owe you."

Talia chuckled at this and reached out to hold Jason's hand.

She said, "Let me ask you a question. Have you ever been pursued by a woman before?"

Jason was stunned for a moment. He looked at Talia's expression carefully, and was immediately frightened when he understood the meaning of the other person's expression.

He stuttered a little and replied: "I, I have been pursued, but... I thought you liked Bruce?"

Talia laughed: "He has been my past for many years. No one stipulates that a woman should miss her ex-boyfriend all her life. Now I don't love Bruce, I love you."

After saying that, she pressed the back of Jason's head, forced him to lower his head, and gave him a kiss. As soon as their lips touched, Talia turned and walked away while smiling, leaving Jason standing there, stunned.

Old Bat's ex-girlfriend actually wants to seduce him!

If Talia hadn't said later that she would take Jason to a place called Big Caste for further training, Jason would have almost run away.