Hey guys! I'm taking on yet another story, because frankly I promised and I made said promise last year! So here is the first chapter. I can't guarantee on how fast updates will come, but I will do my best to make them quick and I will finish it!

Boring Disclaimer: I do not own DC, Warner Brothers, or Cartoon Network (If I did this show would never have been cancelled and they would actually show quality tv shows, not this mindless drabble!) The minute I do, you'll all be the first to know!

This story was inspired by the comic by Mouseleaf over on Deviant Art, and she was nice enough to let me play with the idea! I'll post the link to her one shot comic on my profile.


ENJOY!


"So how come Artemis isn't here?"

Robin looked up from his holo-computer and grinned at the speedster. "I already told you Wally! She's in Star City working a case with Green Arrow! Otherwise she would've been here!"

The redheaded speedster grumbled, but made no other comment. He flopped back down on the wall edging the building rooftop.

Despite his proclaimed dislike for the blonde Archer, he'd come to enjoy the back and forth 'bickering' between them.

Robin's head suddenly jerked up. "They're here!"

Wally looked up in surprise. "What?"

"You really can't sneak up on him can you?"

Wally turned around, startled, as Conner climbed up the fire escape. Kaldur was right behind him, a small amused smile playing around the Atlantian's lips.

"You too M'Gann." Robin added, going back to his holo-computer.

M'Gann came out of stealth mode, grinning from ear to ear. To Conner she added, "I told you! Even I can't sneak up on him!"

Wally snorted. "Dude, Rob's a bat! No one, absolutely no one sneaks up on a bat!"

Conner shook his head. "Why do we always meet on rooftops when we come to Gotham?"

"Again, because Rob's a bat, it's kind of an instinct by this point." Wally answered ruffling said boy wonder's hair affectionately and earning a playful swipe in response. He suddenly grinned as Kaldur and Conner took a seat on the wall beside him. "Well, since we're all here let's get moving!"

Robin cackled and nodded, shutting off his computer and jumping to his feet. "Right! Ok guys, operation 'Play Date' is now in effect!"


"Tell me, how is it you talked the Batman into allowing us patrol with you tonight?" Kaldur asked, jumping from one rooftop to the next beside the diminutive ninja.

Robin laughed, landing and turning a cartwheel as he did before continuing his run. "I didn't! That's the beauty of it! Batman had things to do in his civilian identity, so Agent 'A' and I arranged a 'play date'!"

Wally tripped and nearly fell. "Batman doesn't know about this? Dude, I've got no problem doing stuff behind the league's back but Gotham is 'Bat' territory! No one horns in on you guys unless they want to have a good long chat with a doctor!"

Robin rolled his eyes at his friend. "We're not that bad!"

Wally snorted. "Says you! Last time Green Arrow came here uninvited he went home with a broken arm!"

Kaldur stopped running, giving Robin a surprised look as the other's pulled up and came back. "Is your mentor truly so protective of his city that he would injure his comrades for violating the boundaries of that territory?"

Robin shook his head. "Yes and no. Gotham is our city, and we do get a little territorial, but Green Arrow getting hurt was his own fault. You don't hurt Isis in front of Cat Woman unless you've got a death wish!"

Conner cocked his head curiously. "Who's Isis?"

Robin grinned. "Isis is Cat Woman's favorite cat. She'll deny it and say she loves her cat's equally, but you can tell. Isis is her special favorite." He started running again and the team followed him.

Robin laughed, turning cartwheels and somersaults across the roof tops as he went.

"As it is, Batman does know. He wasn't very keen on the idea, but he caved after Agent 'A' pointed out that I hadn't been allowed out as Robin in over a week and I was starting to get Cabin fever. Better to let me out of the house to patrol with you guys than risk me sneaking out on my own."

M'Gann gave Robin a shocked look. "You'd sneak out against Batman's orders?"

He grinned up at the Martian girl flying overhead. "Nah, probably not. Not after a week at any rate! I'd have to be pretty desperate to sneak out on my own, cause that is a historically bad move. I got kidnapped by the Riddler last time I pulled that stunt."

Wally laughed. "I remember that!... Hey Rob, what's yellow, slippery, and writes?"

Robin groaned. "God Wally, don't even go there!"

"A ball point banana!" Wally crowed, completely ignoring his friends request and the looks of death the bird was now shooting in his direction.

"Ok that's it!" Robin yelled and tackled his friend from behind, loosing one of his signature cackles as he did.

The two rolled forward across the roof several feet, laughing as they playfully wrestled. It ended with Wally cuffed to an antenna by his ankle with a bat-cuff, and Robin crouching on top of said antenna to stay out of the speedster's reach.

A warning beep from his computer ended the fracas. Still laughing Robin tossed the key down to Wally and brought up his holo-computer.

Wally shook his head up at the bird. "Of course ya know this means war!" he teased, unlocking the cuff around his ankle.

Robin cast a grin down at him. "Be vewy vewy quiet, or I'll get you yet you wascally speedster!" he answered.

Off to one side he heard Conner murmur something to M'Gann about actually getting that reference.

The bird chuckled, running his eye over the readouts on his screen and sighed. "Sadly, the war's gonna have to wait till later. I'm reading a break-in at the Gotham Museum of History."

Kaldur came to stand under the antenna. "Do you have any indication of who it might be?"

"Umm…" The boy wonder's fingers flew across the holographic keyboard, eyes fixed on the strings of code streaming across the screen. "Sorry, the museums cyber security is good. It'd take me five minutes to get their security footage, and we can be there in less than three. That's the building right over there." He pointed off to his right at a tall domed building.

Kaldur nodded. "Very well. Lead the way."


Klarion the Witch Kid grinned, carefully lifting his prize from its glass case.

The raven haired boy had gotten turned around in the dark and it had taken him several minutes to find the correct display case. A few moments more to recite the spell that would allow him to take the gemstone without setting off the alarm. But he had it now!

He'd done it!

Beside him his cat familiar mewed, giving him a baleful glare with red gemstone eyes. The best description anyone had ever been able to give was that the cat was an orange and white tabby, the brown stripes in it's pelt shaped like arcane symbols.

He gave it an exasperated look. Honestly sometimes Teekl was too much!

"I know, I know! But it would only take a second!"

"And that's a second you don't have!"

The demon of chaos whirled, surprise written all over his face. He'd thought he'd avoided all the silent alarms! The young justice team had fanned out in a semi-circle behind him, cutting off his retreat. He closed his hand more tightly around his pilfered prize.

Beside him, Teekl mewed again.

"I know you told me so, don't rub it in!" he grumbled at his cat.

Kid Flash shook his head. "I don't know what's weirder, the fact that he went to all this trouble for one little ruby the size of a ping pong ball, or the fact that he talks to that mangy old cat of his!"

Klarion glared at them, calling his power forth to surround his hands. Though not physically imposing in his shape as a boney teenager with paper white skin and black hair, the demon of chaos was still a force to be reckoned with. The fiery red glow of his power welling round his spidery fingers was all to visible proof of that.

Robin rolled his eyes at Wally. "You just had to make the mangy cat comment didn't you?"

Wally held up his hands. "What? I hate cats! Cats are probably the most annoying animals on the face of the planet! Right up there with those stupid pigeons in New York!"

Klarion's eyes suddenly shifted to red and he gave an enraged shriek. No one insulted Teekl except him! How dare this insignificant little peon call his familiar a stupid mangy cat!

With an angry scream he sent bolt after bolt of his fiery red power crackling through the air at the team, that one in the yellow costume in particular!

The team scattered, narrowly evading the demon's angry blasts as they leapt up into the air or dove behind the museums many columns and display cases.

Well, that was a spectacularly bad idea... Robin commented drily over the psychic link.

M'Gann frowned. Isn't that usually Artemis' line when Wally does something stupid? She asked from her place behind a plaster statue near the ceiling.

Robin grinned and nodded. Artemis knew she probably wouldn't be able to make it tonight since this 'play date' was supposed to end around twelve, so she asked me to yell at Wally for her.

Hey! You act like it's a given I'm going to do or say something stupid. Wally fussed from behind a column, glaring at the rest of his teammates as they took cover from Klarion's blasts.

There was a very long moment of silence as the rest of the team starred at each other in apparent confusion before returning their gazes to the speedster.

Isn't it? They all chorused in unison, grinning from ear to ear.

Wally groaned and face palmed. …forget I said anything…

Already forgotten KF. Robin answered grimly. Kaldur, got any ideas?

When I fought him with Fate, we scared him off by beating on his cat. It's some kind of anchor or something, just like Fate's helmet. Wally offered.

Kaldur nodded. If we provide a distraction, could you apprehend the animal? He asked Wally.

The speedster peeked out from behind his column. Yeah, I can get it. But if I get scratched I am totally blaming you guys.

Just do it already! Conner growled.

Robin loosed his trademark cackle and leapt from his hiding place, giving Klarion a moving target. Still laughing, he childishly stuck his tongue out at the demon of chaos before darting into the shadows again.

Then it was Kaldur's turn.

Wally watched carefully and when he judged the timing right, he made a run for it. He pushed himself to go as fast as he could, running past columns and display cases and Klarion himself. But when he tried to stop he found himself sliding across the museum's tile floor!

He made a desperate grab for the cat as he slid past, actually managing to snag it before he slammed into a wall.

Teekl gave an angry howl, hissing and scratching at the teenager who had caught him. Klarion whirled, eyes widening in shock when he realized his cat had been captured.

"Ow! Ow! Ow! Dang it, stop scratching me you stupid cat!" Wally hollered, trying to pin the cat's legs as he got to his feet.

Teekl responded by biting him.

Klarion's eyes seemed to become an even brighter shade of red. "You wanna pick on a poor, defenseless kitty cat?" he screeched. "Let's see how you like it!"

The demon of chaos threw his hands up into the air, the ruby he had risked so much to steal held in the thumb and forefinger of each hand. He was rapidly chanting some sort of spell or other.

With one final, shouted word, the ruby glowed to life with a fire of its own. Red lighting shot from the stone, engulfing each teenager in it's light and energy.

They screamed and fell to their hands and knees, Wally dropping the cat. It was rather a harsh fall for Robin and M'Gann, as M'Gann had been flying and Robin had been perched on top of a statue.

Luckily for Robin, Conner broke his fall.

The team curled into the fetal position, unable to fight the blinding pain tearing at their senses. It seemed to last forever and only a few seconds, the pain skewing their sense of time. When it finally stopped, they continued to lay there gasping, to stunned to move.

Standing above his fallen enemies, Klarion smiled.

He slowly lowered his hands and tucked the ruby in his pocket, his eyes returning to their normal dark color. Teekl came up beside him and gave a quiet, questioning mew. When the demon of chaos held out his arms, the cat was more than happy to jump up into them.

He mewed again.

Klarion grinned. "Don't you worry, I punished them good." He promised, stroking the cat's fur in an affectionate way he would deny if anyone pointed it out. He turned and pointed to where that insufferable cat hater Kid Flash lay.

"See?"

The cat's gaze followed where he pointed, and after a moment's scrutiny it meowed again, as though satisfied.


Wally groaned.

His whole body hurt, as if he'd challenged Conner to a sparring match and lost. He tried to get up, but his limbs would barely obey him.

They felt as if they'd been turned to jelly.

He could hear Klarion talking to that stupid cat of his somewhere nearby, but he didn't really pay attention to it.

Until he heard those chilling words.

"Well, what are you waiting for Teekle? He's awake, go take your revenge."


DUN! Dun! dun! Oh the suspense! Lol, I'll get the next chapter up as soon as I can, I promise! And Mouseleaf, I hope I make you proud dear!

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