It had been discovered that an alien race was coming to Earth. When was still unknown. The leaders of Earth gathered and decided their best option was to send the Justice League. If anyone could save them it was the Justice League.

The League agreed but quickly realized if they left who would protect Earth? The only solution they could come up with was to send young justice. So the plan was set. The team would leave on an expanded bioship, while traveling to the alien planet they would train as much as they could. They didn't know if it'd be enough but it was their only option.

Before they left the team was given only the highest of awards military and civilian alike. The team never questioned why they were getting the awards; they all knew the truth that no one wanted to say. They might not come back.

*Bruce's POV*

He knew that his boy, his robin may never come back. That's why watching them leave was the hardest thing in the world. He would give anything to go in his place, but he knew that he was needed here. He knew just how dangerous this mission was going to be, but he knew he would come back. All he could do is make sure Gotham was safe when he returned.

*8 year time skip*

It was time it had been 8 years, he had to come back or else he was going to go insane.

"Batman come quickly."

"What is so important, flash, that you can't handle it?"

"Jon said to come immediately. He said he had information on the team!"

That changed everything. He quickly came to the tower.

"What is it Jon?"

"We have detected M'gann's bioship nearing the atmosphere."

Bruce's heart leapt into his throat, his boy was coming home. That's when he realised something it couldn't be his boy no now it was his ELDEST boy. How was he going to tell his other kids? Jason, Tim, Stephine, Cassie, Terry, and little Matt. Bruce had adopted all of them except Terry and Matt. They were a product of project batman beyond* but were still his sons. There was no way he would treat them any differently especially after Clark & Conner.

Quickly all of the mentors met on the landing dock where the kids would be landing in only a few minutes. Suddenly superman, who had been looking at the sky, hurried to a spot a few feet away.

"What is it Clark?"

"It's the kids they're entering the atmosphere."

If anyone were to look at the landing dock they would see the mentors and the rest of the original seven craning to look at something invisible in the sky.

The air seemed to leave them as the ship landed. Out came six adults. A dark skinned man that was a little less than six feet with long blonde hair. He had on what appeared to be a wetsuit made of a dark blue color and had a lightning bolt in the center with a triton going through it. There was no mask hiding his eyes that spoke of wisdom and knowledge. A dark haired man, with the same blue eyes as superman, although you couldn't tell due to his domino mask, who was six foot exactly, his dark hair was cropped short, came out after him. He had a full body black suit with a white s-shield in the center that seemed to glow. Next came out a woman with blonde hair that went to her back in a braid and eyes that seemed to glow. She had on a black body suit with three orange tiger claws in the center and on her right shoulder was a green arrow poised as if flying through the air. Her mask was a domino with the eyes instead of white but orange tiger eyes. The eyes seemed so natural you would think the eyes were her own. After her was another woman with green skin and short, boy style, orange hair and orange eyes. She wore an all red shirt and skirt with a black x across the chest with a short blue cape. She wore no mask and her boots were black and led into black leggings that ended at her skirt. Then came a man with long flaming red hair. He wore a red body suit with a black lightning bolt in the center and black tinted red goggles over his eyes. His boots were black as well with lightning bolts and he wore gloves that were black. Finally another man, who was clearly the youngest, stepped out. He wore a black body suit with a blue bird in flight across his chest whose wings circled his arms to his fingertips. He wore black fingerless gloves and a black domino mask. On his shoulders were a robin, in yellow, red, and green, in flight and a bat in all black it seemed to blend into his shoulder with just a hint of justice league was stunned they didn't know what to expect when the kids came home but they hadn't thought they'd change this much. Flash, being his normal self, had to blurt out about their outfits. He summed up all their thoughts in four Words.

"What with the costumes?"

Surprisingly it was the redhead, who they knew was kid flash, who spoke.

"What did you expect us to stay kids forever?" As he looked around he started laughing, "You did didn't you?"

"Impulse!" The dark skinned boy, who they realized had to be aqualad, admonished.

"Impulse?"

"We all took on new names."

"What are they?"

"Impulse."

"Lightning triton."

"Kon-el." Superman looked up in shock at this.

"Tigress."

"Martian Mistress."

"And you?" They asked the last one.

"Nightwing."

"Ok I can sort of understand the others but why night wing?"

"When I was a kid my parents and I were a type of gymnasts. Someone once commented that when they saw us perform they looked for wings because that was the only way we could do those things."

"And the night part of it?"

"If you're looking for my father….."

"Yeh."

"You'll want to look at night. I mean he is the dark KNIGHT."

After a moment the newly dubbed impulse looked around and asked "so what'd we miss?"

*project batman beyond was a project made by was a project that took batman's DNA and infused it into a neo-Gotham (future Gotham) citizen. This caused that citizen's reproductive DNA to match batman's in hope that batman would live on. The boy that was created was terry McGinnis and his little brother Mathew. Terry eventually becomes batman. To know his story look up and watch the batman beyond episodes it was a good show.