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Looking back at things Wally could see the apparent relationship, but how the hell was he supposed to believe that his best friend's dad is Batman. The Batman.
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You could argue that this all started because of Nightwing's jokes about being Batman's son, which both red robin and robin seemed to have joined in on (which I now know wasn't a joke but hindsight is 20/20), but this only really took off after a particularly bad mission which forced the JLA to call in reinforcements.
Now we can all sit and argue whose fault it was that both the young justice and the JLA seem to have completely pissed off their leaders, but one thing is for sure having them call you out in front of your heroes is a really good punishment.
“Who would like to tell why the fuck all of you ‘competent’ individuals”, ouch, I guess it's decidedly worse for the heroes getting told us in front of what are essentially kids to them, “decided to throw away all the plans I made and do the one thing I specifically told you not to do.”
“Well you see, um so… well this was all hmm… right, this is all supermans fault yes him. Yes… he told us to do it,” is green lantern trying to get killed!?
“Would you like to throw me under an actual bus!”
“Well B listen so what happened was… umm…,”
“shut up.” batman commands, “ all of you are going to do exactly as I say and after this is all over we’re going to go through all of the training exercises again and a few new ones since I didn't think common sense was needed to be taught.”
“Oh, what are you guys snickering at, they're not the ones that blew up a government building,” note to self, don’t forget about your pissed of leader/best friend, “They aren't the only ones that are going to redo all of their training and you know what bats over here just gave me a great idea. You can all sit through some common sense classes.”
The varying sounds of protest were quickly silenced by two identical glares, Which then followed a conversation between Batman and Nightwing that nobody else could follow.
“T32 while we try and negotiate a peace treaty between our races?”
“That won’t work since we’re lacking a bat”
“It could work if we tie it into G3”
“Alright okay fair enough but I get to take point in the negotiations”
“No.”
“Aw B come on, you know I can do this”
“It's too risky and we need this to go perfectly”
“I'm ready for this, we know they’re…”
Their voices fade as they walk away leaving the rest of them to gossip about what just happened. “You know watching them together I can almost believe Nightwing's claims on batman being his dad, they have an uncanny resemblance,” conner points out. “Wouldnt that be a thought, spooky with kids. God, I would pay to see that,” added green lantern.
Now even though no one took the claim seriously it had slowly crept into their consciousness further solidified by the ease with which they worked together in the following mission. I mean it's like they could read each other's minds with how in sync they were.
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All this came to an end after a major battle with an invasive species hellbent on taking over the planet. An all hands on deck situation ending in everyone back at the watchtower receiving treatment or simply taking a breath.
No one knows how the topic came to be but here they were discussing the batdad situation as they have lovingly started calling it. “ I'm being fully serious guys he really is my dad” Nightwing exclaims. “It is and I would know we’re siblings right lil’ D,” adds red robin followed by a very grumpy robin nodding his head.
“Guys come on, jokes aside there's no way batman has children have you met the man,”
“Aren't you supposed to be in the medbay Roy! Why the hell are you up” omg isn't that red hood, how the hell is he pardoned again, “ and goldie over here isn't lying deal old batsy really is our dad”
“Oh not you too, you have not said a good word about your father and now you want me to believe he's batman, come on hood you can do better than this”
“Hey just cause I have daddy issues doesn't mean that batman can't be my father”
“Okay, you know what we can prove it,” Nightwing says, with what I can only explain as a plotting face. “Oh really, and how do you plan on doing that, you gonna go ask batman himself,” I say, and god the look of joy that overtook all 4 of their faces was so unsettling and dare I say identical I instantly regretted every choice that led me to this point.
“That is a great idea west,” how does he even know my name, “who wants to take this, I vote for goldie as he can get away with almost everything,” says red hood, “that would be an apt choice, he does have father wrapped around his finger,” adds robin. “I mean obviously, he’s his favourite,” states red robin which leads to Nightwing vehemently refusing all claims.
“What do you mean I'm the favourite have you seen how much we argue”
“He would let you get away with murder if you asked nicely enough” red hood deadpanned
“He would not! You guys are delusional but I will do it but only because I have a great idea”
“You guys aren't serious right, there's no way you're going to get spooky involved in this. You're going to die!” I have to agree with green lantern here, but I know better than to stop N when he’s set on something. It would be easier to bottle sunshine.
“It's fine guys besides the big 3 are on their way so we don't have enough time to talk N out of this anyway,” conner chimes in, which is true but still he could have been nicer about it.
Nightwing then proceeds to do the most outlandish move we could've expected and legitimately runs and jumps on batman. Batman just caught him with such ease (he's not a light guy dam) but more importantly Nightwing seems to be full-on pouting at the man and proceeds to whine.
“ B!” he whines, “they're all being so mean to me,” and let me just add a grown man has no right looking that cute but more importantly what the fuck! “They don't believe me when I said your my dad and now they're calling me a liar,” is those tears in his eyes, from where! “Even red and hood are being called liars, they were only defending me now everyone bullying them too,” what the hell is he saying, “they even dismissed Lil’d.” is he actually crying, these are plain lies what is he planning?
Nobody there was prepared for batman to level them all with a glare so impressive I'm pretty sure at least 2 of them are shaking. To make matters worse red hood, red robin and robin all suddenly look so sad and pitiful completely selling N’s story. “You all did what now,” growls batman, “ they are very much my children and everyone who has just hurt them is gonna pay dearly.” This is how I die, oh god I'm gonna die.
And then Nightwing breaks into the most shit-eating grin and proceeds to say, “see, I wasn't lying. Look it's my very real dad, and B you owe agent A 50 dollars.”
“This was a reasonable reaction, you were crying!”
“Come on B agent A’s right you lose all sense of reason when it comes to us. If you had used any one of your many brain cells you would've realised no one in their right mind would try and bully the red hood or even better your tiny demon child, and more importantly that they would still have all their limbs intact”
“This is technically cheating, you fabricated the situation and almost made some of these people lose a few limbs,” was he actually going to kill us earlier? Never hurt the batkids. Got it. I feel like I should warn more people about this.
The moral of the story is to not get on any of the bats' wrong side. they could kill you and no one would ever find the body.