Hey, look who's not dead. Anyway like it says in the description/summary thing this is a rewrite. Basically I'm going through and correcting my mistakes, tweaking a few things here and there and generally trying to make this a better story. Basic plot is still the same and all that jazz.
Any way sorry about the wait but you know; life, freshman year of high school, swim team, new computer, ect. Enjoy le fic!
Shout out to FEMALE ITACHI for the spectacular review. Seriously. Thank you.
Chapter 1: The mission
"Team, today will be a collaborative effort between both league, and yourselves. There has been a recent reporting of Mirror Master in Gotham. Seeing as he normally haunts around Central City; this has roused the suspicion of Flash as well as myself. This will be a covert mission you will be following me in the batwing in the Bio-ship, we will observe and, if I deem it necessary, will engage in combat. You will follow my lead. Understood?"
The Team stood before Batman, already suited up and ready to go as they received orders for their latest mission. All though none of them were quite expecting what it entailed. Well, no one except Kid Flash and Robin. KF because he already heard the news from Flash and Robin because he had heard it from Batman and already worked with the Dark Knight and knew what to expect from the Bat and what was expected of himself, unlike the others.
When Batman was done with the debriefing the Team nodded before moving to prepare. But not before Zatanna spoke up.
"Um, what about Rocket?"
Robin responded before his Mentor even had the chance to open his mouth. "She's on a mission with Icon and is unavailable at the moment."
Zatanna nodded, excepting the answer, before turning and following Artemis and M'gan out to the hangar.
Robin turned towards his mentor and father figure. "Ready? Been awhile since we've teamed up."
Batman merely nodded and walked away in the direction of the air transport hanger, ruffling Robin's hair as he went bringing a slight smile to the boy's face in the process.
As the others waited at the bio-ship M'gan finally voiced her worries. "Hey, Wally, do you have any idea what Mirror Master may want in Gotham?"
Wally shook his head before quickly swallowing his bite of granola bar. "Not for sure, but we think it might have to do with the new Diamond thingy that will be premiered at that auction coming up. A diamond of that size could be used for any number of things."
Artemis was the next to speak. "Just how big is it?"
"Big enough."
They all turned to see Batman walking in with Robin following close behind. Kaldur nodded to the others and M'gan opened the door to the Bio-ship. She was about to enter when Conner saw Robin was still following Batman.
"Robin Bio-ships over here."
The team turned to Robin with questioning glances.
Robin's faced turned a light shade of pink as he brought his arm up and rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "Um, yeah about that…Well, uh, you see…..I was, sort of going to…ride with Bats."
Even though it was supposed to be a statement it came out more as a question. Before Conner could ask or say anything Wally slapped a hand over his mouth and replied himself.
"Oh, ok we'll see ya there."
Robin nodded, the big bright smile on his face reminding everyone just how young their dear boy wonder really was, before he turned and raced off jumping up in the air before landing in the safety of the Batwing. Once they had taken off and were following the Dynamic Duo, Conner confronted Wally.
"So, care to explain why you put your hand over my mouth?"
Wally shrugged and the others leaned in, they were a bit interested to. "Yeah, sorry about that, course of habit."
But Artemis wasn't satisfied with that answer. "'Course of habit'? What for? Super Boy was just going to ask Robin a question; it wasn't that big a deal. Why would that trigger you 'habit'?"
Once more Wally shrugged. "Rob is like my little brother, I noticed he was uncomfortable, so out of hobbit I attempted to make it less uncomfortable for the guy….you still don't understand do you?"
The team, minus kaldur who was beginning to catch on, shook their heads.
Surprisingly, it was their newest member, Zatanna, who answered. "I think I do, you think of yourself as Robin's older brother so it's only natural that you would be protective of him like that
But you really didn't need to do that, it was pretty obvious that Robin just wanted to spend some time with Batman."
Conner raised an eyebrow. "Bats is Rob's mentor right? Doesn't he spend enough time with him as it is?"
"Not quite, I believe I understand." Kaldur began. "If you watch Robin carefully and listen to certain things he says, it's clear he thinks much more highly of Batman. I would go as far as to say he sees him as a father figure."
Wally pretended to shoot Kaldur with a finger gun. "Exactly, and I think we can all say that you never really get tired of your parents. Especially Robin, what with his auto-phobia and all, course after all the guy's been through you can't really blame him."
"Auto-phobia, you mean he's scared of cars or something" Conner asked
"No, from what I understand Auto-phobia is the traumatizing fear of being alone. Right?" M'gan informed/asked.
Artemis nodded. "Yeah, but why would Robin have Auto-phobia, he doesn't really seem like the type to have it."
Wally turned to look at her with a rare show of complete seriousness. "It doesn't have to do with Robin but his secret ID. It's not my place to explain but if you knew you'd understand just how well he is at self-control, the poor guys has practically been through hell and back. Considering that the real course for his fear came about before he even became Robin."
Zatanna spoke next. "He's been Robin ever since he was 9 right, Poor guy."
They were silent for a moment before M'gan received a transmission from Batman. Soon the video screen appeared and Batman's popped up as he relayed instructions.
"We will be arriving in approximately 5 minutes, 2 minutes from now we will split up as to avoid suspicion. Ms. Martian, you will need to put the Bio-ship in camouflage mode and go ahead of us, wait at the target point behind the building and wait for my signal, Robin and I will land there and check things out, since this is Gotham it won't look to suspicious for us to be their if we get caught, go ahead and start up the physic link and we will part ways understood?"
"Yes." With that the transmission cut off and M'gan's eyes began to glow as she set up the link.
M'gan: everyone online?
Wally: you bet ya
Artemis: yes
Conner: whatever
Zantanna: reading you loud and clear
Kaldur: yes, Batman, Robin?
Robin: Of course just waiting on you.
Batman: good, move out
Line break line break line break
Robin watched as the Bio-ship disappeared into camouflage mode and zoomed ahead before sinking back into his seat next to Batman. It had been awhile since he'd been able to sit next to him like this for a mission. He kind of missed it.
"So, any idea what Mirror Master's after?"
Batman glanced at him before speaking. "It's not set in stone, but we suspect he's after the new diamond that is going to be showed at an action on the 5th."
Robin shook his head. "Must be some diamond to get him haul himself all the way to Gotham, have you contacted Gothom PD, or we going solo?"
"Solo…oh and Dick?"
Robin tensed Batman calling him by his ID on a mission is never a good thing. He tried for a smile. "Yes?"
"Your Math teacher called."
Aw crap. He was seriously reconsidering his idea of riding with Bat. He tried to play it cool after all he didn't do anything…...well nothing that bad. "What she say?"
"She was wondering if you we're interested in the UIL competition."
Robin blinked, that was it? She didn't find out that he hacked the school system to play pictures of photo shopped Jokers in a tutu on the announcement?
Brue glanced at him. "So are you?"
"Yeah sure, I don't see why not."
He received a nod in response. "We're here get ready."
Soon Batman and Robin were moving swiftly through the shadows towards the sound a welding torch and laughter. When dynamic duo arrived, still hidden undetected among the shadows, they froze.
"So not asterous." Robin breathed out.
Bats nodded in agreement. "We'll observe for a few more minutes then I'll decide whether or not to call in the team." With that Gotham's protectors slipped further into the shadows to do just that.
Down below Mirror master and his assistant, Smoke, were wilding together different pieces of mirrors and glass into one big mirror. In front of it M.M was fiddling with the biggest diamond either of them had ever seen. Upon closer inspection they could see that the giant mirror was another trans-dimensionl portal, but it was missing a big chunk, almost as big as that diamond… Just as Robin and Bats were about to fire their grappling hooks after Batman had signaled the team via mental link, Mirror Master finished his little project.
"Finally with this complete not only will I be a master of mirrors but of time and space!" he turned to his assistant, only to find her unconscious at the feet of the boy wonder and his mentor. M.M smiled in mock hospitality. "Ah, Batman and the boy blunder, how nice of you to drop by. You're just in time for the show." As he spoke he reached behind his back for the contraption's controller. He was just about to press the button when there was a flash of yellow and read and he was left pressing on his own hand.
Then kid flash stood 5 feet away from him leaning against the wall with the controller in hand. "Miss me?"
A snarl escaped M.M's lips. "Kid Flash, a little far from home don't you think."
"Oh and you're not?" came Artemis's voice followed by two arrows which pinned M.M to the wall as she jumped down followed by Zatanna."
"Tlem dna dnib!" As soon as the spell was spoken the metal of the arrows melted and formed into cuff keeping Mirror Master from escaping.
Batman nodded in approval. "Good, Supper boy, Ms. Martian, Aqualad. Break that mirror over there."
The afore mentioned nodded and made their way over to the giant mirror but Ms. Martian stopped them and turned to Batman who was having Zatanna melt the make-shift cuffs so he could place real ones on him.
"Um, I'm sensing levels of radiation coming from the mirror"
"How high?"
He was answered by a maniacal laugh. "High enough Batsy!"
Kid Flash shook his head. "I knew this was two easy." He was met by a nod of the head from the two Bats in the room.
The Team watched as a tall man with paper white skin in a purple suit with green hair and a gruesome blood red smile walked out of the shadows.
"Joker." Spat the Batman.
"That's right, Pudin' here is goanna ruff you up." Came Harley Quin's voice as she stepped out to stand next to Joker, two hyenas at her heels.
Mirror Master glared at Joker. "Nice of you to finally show up."
Joker laughed and snapped his fingers and Harley Handed him what looked like a bomb trigger. "Yes, well I had to acquire some insurance. But if you would so kindly ask your assisstant to fire this baby up….I would be much obliged." Apparently he found what he said extremely hilarious because he through his head back in maniacal laughter.
M.M looked a bit annoyed but he complied. "YOU HEARD THE CLOWN, FIRE HER UP!"
Wally looked confused before realization dawned on his face as he ran up to the 'unconscious assistant' he gave her a swift kick and she broke into bits of glass. "Oh no."
"Oh yes!" came a voice from above them in the cat walks. Everyone looked up to find the real version of Smoke standing at a control panel. With a cruel smile she pulled some kind of lever and the giant mirror began to glow brighter and brighter by the second, a strong vacuum like wind began to pull at the heroes. Being the closest Kaludr got pulled in first, M'gan almost went through next but Supper boy, who was holding on the medal poll next to him, grabbed her out of the air at the last second. Zatanna tried to keep herself inplace with a spell, digging her feet into the ground and magically sticking herself there. Artemis fired her grappling arrow just as Batman and Robin fired there grappling hooks. Artemis's missed and she was sucked in nocking into Wally and taking him with her.
Mirror Master, Smoke, Harley Quin, and Joker were already at the entrance and out of harm's way. Joker turned around with a cruel smile on his face. "SO LONG BATSY!" with that he slammed the door shut but not before he hit his trigger. Bombs went off sending a tremor though the building causing Supper boy to lose his grip, which in turn caused him and M'Gan to fall into the portal. One of the bombs had caused the support beam that Robin's hook was wrapped around to break. As he flew back Batman grasped him and pulled him close but the support beam that his was wrapped around was already damaged and with the strong wind it couldn't take their combined weight. After another a minute it finally gave way and the two protectors of Gotham joined the others of the team's previous descents into the mirror turned portal as the world went black. Only Zatanna stayed in place sue to her magic, staring wide eyed at the portal that had just consumed her team.
Man I sucked at grammar when I wrote this.
Well, there it is the first re-writen chapter not much changed save for Zatanna staying behind. But when I re-read the original I saw that I left her out and since she didn't really have that much significance to the plot before I decided to give her some and had her stay behind to help tell the league what happened. Anyway there you go, hope you like it if your new, if your re-reading the story yes, yes I did combined the first and second chapters. It seemed easier and it made me feel like I actually got some work done.