This quantity, accumulating NIGHTWING #133-137 and NIGHTWING ANNUAL #2, explores the misplaced 12 months of Dick Grayson’s life, after he stop being the Dark Knight’s accomplice and earlier than he joined the New Teen Titans. It is the 12 months a pal, a foe, and a love from the previous returned from the darkness to hang-out him and adjusted his life perpetually.

After confronting Bride and Groom, Nighthunter would get a go to of a girlfriend from the previous referred to as Liu after she was kidnapped by a gang named the Tigers. It was revealed that Dick Grayson (Nightwing) met Liu when he was seventeen just a few months after the unique Teen Titans had disbanded and some days after an enormous combat with Batman.

It was with Liu that Dick Grayson misplaced his virginity, making him fall in love together with her and virtually getting into in an obsession. Throughout that “misplaced 12 months” between the top of the unique Teen Titans and the forming of the New Teen Titans he would additionally meet a person that was referred to as “Eddie Metal”, Liu revealed to Dick Grayson that she was once more with Eddie however this time in a approach that was all enterprise, whereas Nightwing was checking if that was true he found that there was a brand new Vigilante (his true identification hasn’t been revealed) that needed to get rid of “The Tigers” and kill Eddie Metal.

After a confrontation between Nightwing and the brand new Vigilante, Dick Grayson would ask to have a dinner with Liu and Eddie Metal, nevertheless he did not know that the vigilante was watching them and that he was now enthusiastic about why Dick Grayson was now with that “unhealthy crew”. After Dick Grayson returned to his residence discovering Ryan being attacked by her angered boyfriend and somewhat after that he realized that the brand new Vigilante was ready for him in his house to assault him, nevertheless his goal was Dick Grayson, not Nightwing.

The Vigilante would torture Dick Grayson in an try to find the true story of how Dick met Liu and Eddie Metal, what had occurred there and why was he with them now.

Apparently Eddie Metal tried to make use of Liu to persuade a younger Dick Grayson to be their move into Wayne’s Enterprises, nevertheless Dick found this and utilizing the identification of Robin he captured them within the act, whereas additionally discovering the failings within the safety of Wayne Enterprises, apparently it’s due to this difficult approach for use by his past love and the primary lady with whom he had intercourse that makes him insecure of getting too shut emotionally with ladies, which is what result in his break-up with Oracle, Starfire, and so on.

It was after this that Nightwing found that “The Tigers” labored for Eddie and that it was all an enormous arrange in order that Nightwing would get near Liu and so they may enter his life once more.

Dick would later determine to have one other dinner with Liu in an try to find what she and Eddie needed from him, which led to Liu making Dick a proposal to go to her house, one thing that Dick Grayson would decline as a result of he knew that he could not belief her.

When he was on his approach residence he was attacked by the Tigers once more, nevertheless these Tigers had been completely different than the others, they had been sooner and extra deadly than ever earlier than. Simply once they had been about to kill him he was rescued by the Vigilante who killed them, he additionally revealed that he knew that Nightwing and Dick Grayson had been the identical particular person.

On the identical time we see that Eddie and Liu used the blood of Dick Grayson alongside along with his genetic markers to enter Wayne’s medical and get a pattern of the investigations that had been there, this was an try and recreate and enhance the serum that the H.I.V.E used within the authentic Ravager. The story ends with the escape of Liu and Eddie and in addition each Nightwing and the Vigilante go their very own separate methods.