Ages for the boys Dick:20, Jason:18, Tim:16, Damian:10
Disclaimer: I do not own Batman
Tim Drake
This was supposed to be easy. Good guy gets bad guy, bad guy goes to jail and everything works out. Of course, this only happens if the team functions like it's supposed too. Jason demanded that since he was the oldest (Dick had other things going on) he should be the leader. Damian outright refused to acknowledge anyone else's presence, and Kon, well Kon was supposed to be there to help him out, by having someone on his side, but now I just wish he wasn't there. There are too many variables and no one is working together.
Jason fired a round at Warp, who brought up a shield to block them, then turned around and fired lasers back at Jason who had to cease firing to jump out of the way. Damian came in and threw an exploding birderang at the time traveler's' feet, causing him to fly backwards and closer to Damian, who was eager to engage in hand–to-hand combat. Unfortunately because of Damian's small stature, he was easily knocked back by one of Warp's electric shock waves. Neither of Jason's or Damian's solo attacks were doing anything, they should have known it wouldn't have worked if they would have just listened to me in the first place when I was giving the debriefing. Warp is too smart for juvenile strategies. It is important to get this mission done as quickly as possible, since we did follow Warp through a time warp to about 12 years ago, the shorter we were here the better (which was also mentioned in the debriefing.) Jason and Damian continued fighting and ignoring the others trying to take Warp down themselves, while I just threw explosives in his path herding him where I wanted him to be (one of us should follow the plan).
The plan was to get him cornered and now he was, or on his way to be. Now we just have to wait for Kon to get into place. He was late; it shouldn't be taking him this long. Two seconds later Kon appeared by my side.
"What took you so long?" I hissed out in a whisper.
"Sorry I'm late; I just had to save some people from falling." Kon explained
"Kon I told you we can't interfere with anything in the past or we could change the future." I can't believe that he didn't remember that, I told him over and over again before we left so he wouldn't forget.
"It wasn't a big deal, I probably only saved them from getting a broken leg or something." Kon defended himself.
"Fine. Whatever. Let's just grab Warp and go home, this has lasted too long as it is."
I jumped down, throwing an exploding disc, the same time Damian threw birderangs, herding Warp towards the other side of the building. Kon shot his eye beams, causing Warp to run into Jason, who proceeded to punch him in the face until he lost consciousness. Which only took three punches. Jason then ripped off the circle mechanism in the center of Warp's chest that controls the time travel, and tosses it to me.
"Take us home replacement." Jason ordered.
I hated it when he called me that, but I was happy we were finished with this dysfunctional mission and were on our way home. It only took a minute to set in the coordinates and time period we wanted. A light portal later, we were back home handing Warp off to the police and heading back to the cave.
When we arrived at the cave, Batman was at the computer like always going through files, but what he said next surprised all of us.
"I blew through another Batboy, that's the third one this month. Worthless. At least they are easy to come by."
"Father?" Damian starts, causing Batman to look over at him and interrupting what Damian was going to say.
"What are you wearing?" Batman demanded. "You haven't survived long enough to choose your own name."
"I was trained by the league of assassins, I am better than any of your former partners." Damian responded in a snap, upset that his father wouldn't even let him use the name Robin like all of the previous partners of Batman.
"That doesn't mean anything and until I tell you otherwise you will remain as Batboy. Dismissed." Batman snapped.
"What!? But father…"
"Dismissed!" Batman yelled cutting off Damian once again.
Only then did they look around the cave and noticed all the differences. First Jason's shrine was no longer there, the case that held the original Robin suit was gone. In fact, there were no Robin suits anywhere, but the most noticeable thing was a group of boys whose age ranged from 12 to 16 sitting in a corner. They were all looking down at the floor trying not to make noise as they grieved for their lost comrade.