DE-AGED ROBIN! Ya so I know there are a lot of these out there but whatever, and for the purposes of this story Barbra will already by Batgirl, but the team doesn't know about her yet and she will have a fierce sisterly lover for Robin/Dick and a little Dick/Babs, but I don't really intend for it to be… So I don't own any of this (sadly) and hope you enjoy it.
Mount Justice
"Are you sure you are okay Robin? That weapon had no effect on you?" Kaldur asked with concern as he eyes the youngest member of the team.
"I'm fine, feeling the aster really. I think it was just water that I was hit with, imagine that?" Robin said with a grin brushing off their leader's concerns.
"Lucky," the yellow and red clad speedster grumbled, rubbing his side which had been hit in the fight. The mission had been simple go in hack a few lame computer systems and get out, they were of course seen and Robin had been shot at with some kind of liquid something.
"We should all go shower and then watch a movie! For team bonding!" M'gann said with excitement floating off to her room.
Kaldur watched as Wally sped off and the rest of the team trudged to their room while Robin just seemed to disappear into the shadows. Sighing he followed, the mission had not gone exactly as planned and Batman would more than likely have a word with the Atlantian about keeping the mission covert.
-BREAKLINE-
"Hey where's Rob?" Wally asked as he shoved popcorn in his face in preparation for the movie. Looking around, the team realized their youngest member was nowhere to be seen. The cackling ninja as it turned out was not in any of the main meeting rooms or training room.
"This is weird," Artemis said walking down the hallway in search of the Boy Wonder. Wally sped off ahead of her checking the rooms on his way.
"Hello Megan!" Came from behind the archer, who turned to look at the green member of the team, "Why don't we check his room? Where else would he be?"
"Robin is not always fond of people going in his room, is this such a good idea?" Kaldur asked glancing around at the rest of the team. Megan had a concerned look on her face, remembering that their youngest member didn't really like people bothering him. Conner had the same stoic look on his face as usual. Artemis shrugged her shoulders not really caring how they found the Boy Wonder and Wally had already zoomed off to the young bird's room.
"RobinRobinRobinRobinRobin!" They heard as Wally pounded on the door waiting for the boy to come open it. When no reply came the boy quickly entered in the key code and sprinted in the room looking around for his best friend.
"Wally! You can't just barge into someones ro-Oh," Artemis' rebuke was soon stopped by her gasp of surprise at the sight before her.
"What is it Artemis?" M'gann asked as she walked in and felt the shock from the young archer.
There lying on the floor of Robin's room was a young boy, maybe of four or five with olive toned skin and raven black hair. He appeared to be wearing a mini Robin costume and seemed to be asleep or knocked out.
"You don't think?" Wally stuttered staring at the small form on the floor.
"But that's crazy," Artemis continued understanding what the speedster was talking about.
"We haven't seen Robin since he came into his room, which was locked before Wally came in," Kaldur quietly observed while moving forward to the small form.
"What should we do?" M'gann asked, her voice full of concern for their youngest and now seemingly even younger team member.
"We must tell Batman. He will know what to do, and he may be able to recognize if this is Robin or not," the team's leader said picking up the still form of the young boy and walking out the room.
"He's not gonna like this," Artemis stated bitterly as she followed the Atlantian out the room.
"He's the goddamn Batman, when does he like anything?" Wally asked with a grin on his face as he followed his teammates out the room.
-BREAKLINE-
RECOGNIZE BATMAN A 01
"He's not gonna be happy," Wally said nervously pacing back and forth in the living room waiting for the Dark Knight to enter.
"What will I not like?" Batman said appearing right in front of the pacing Wally.
"Um-well-" Wally began nervously backing up at the slight glare in the hero's eyes.
"Well sir, it's about Robin," Kaldur began, but stopped at the look on Batman's face. On anyone else it would read 'I already know' but on him it just came off as a sarcastic 'No shit Sherlock'.
"Well, the mission went fine and all and no one seemed to be severely hurt," and only Robin or Alfred would have been able to see Batman's twitch as 'seemed' to the others he looked as stone face as ever.
"Well everything seemed fine, but we couldn't fine Robin and when we checked his room, well we found what we think is him, but uh, you just might wanna look at this as way of explanation..." the team leader trailed off gesturing to the living room couch where a small boy was hiding from view.
Swiftly walking over, the Dark Knight looked down to see the sleeping form of the young boy. He glared at the team before quickly yet gently picking up the young boy and carrying him out the room. The team watched as he exited the room waiting for the sound of the zeta tubes, but it never came.
"He's in the medical bay I think, or some area around there," Superboy said after using his super hearing for a second.
"Should we go after him?" Wally asked looking at the team.
"Wasn't it you that called him the goddamn Batman earlier?" Artemis asked wryly lifting an eyebrow.
"Ya but, never mind," the Speedster said as he plopped down on the couch. The rest of the team filed in around him, none of them feeling like watching a movie anymore.
-BREAKLINE-
"You're to watch him for now, I'm going to work on a cure for whatever this is," Batman said, appearing out of nowhere at the back of the room.
"Yes sir," Kaldur said speaking for the rest of the protégés assembled.
"But where is he?" Wally whined looking around but not seeing the little bird.
"He's in the med bay, awake," the dark knight growled before silently exiting the room.
"Robin!" Wally yelled has he sped off to see his best friends with the team at his heels. Walking into the room, the first thing the team noticed was that all the beds were empty.
"He couldn't have-" Artemis began but was cut off by a very familiar but slightly high cackle echoing off the walls. Rolling her eyes, Artemis looked around for the source of the laugh, but turned when Conner yelped from behind her.
The Boy Wonder, now barley reaching Superboy's knees in height, had run strait into the back of his legs. Conner looked down in surprise as the young child cartwheeled out the room.
"Robin!" Wally again yelled as he chased after the little bird and bent to scoop him up off the ground only for the young acrobatic to jump out of the way at the last second surprising everyone with his speed for such a young age.
M'gann followed after the Boy Wonder, and flew up to him and picked him up with surprisingly no resistance from her young charge.
"Robin, are you feeling okay?" Asked the green martian as she held the boy at arm's length, looking up and down his small body for any physical damage.
"I'm fine Miss M," came the high pitched voice from the boy's mouth.
"WOAH! DUDE, your voice is even higher now! I didn't think that was possible!" Wally said speeding over to inspect his tiny best friend.
"Shut it Kid Idiot," snapped the young bird with a batglare, that should have striked fear into all of them, and it would have except for the fact that it had come from an adorable four year old.
"AAAhhh! You're so cute!" M'gann exclaimed while snuggling the little bird close to her, causing Artemis to come over and ohh and ahh at him as well, although it seemed the young boy finally had enough and started struggling against the bines of the martian's arms.
"Okay, enough. ENOUGH!" Robin yelled while throwing his hands up in exasperation, "Look I know I'm cute and all," the boy said with a sly grin which got him a glare from the red headed speedster, "But really, can you put me down? I may be a child physically, but mentally I'm still a 13 year old, and not a very traught one at that."
Sighing M'gann released him only to rest a hand on his head when he stood next to her, which Robin of course shook off and instead decided to head to the kitchen. Mesmerized the team followed after the adult acting child that was apparently their bird.
At that moment… in the Batcave
"BATMAN!" Came a screamed that made the all mighty Batman, most feared man in Gotham, flinch. He looked back to what he was doing in the labs of the Batcave, trying to appear to look as though he didn't hear the girl, but to no avail.
"Alfred told me what happened!" Barbara yelled as she stepped off the last step that led into the Batcave, Bruce looked up in slight fear at the look of fury on the young women's face. He had never truly experienced a Batglare before; sure Dick tried to pull them on him all the time, but the look on Barbara's face was all he needed for explanation.
"Where is he?!" the Batgirl demanded coming up behind her mentor, he had never really heard her with this much anger and fury in her voice, and frankly it scared him half to death because he didn't know what she was capable of when she went all momma bear like this.
"He's with his team," the Dark Knight said coolly not relaying any of his emotions and fears.
"YOU LEFT HIM WITH THOSE IDIOTS!?" She screamed before storming off in the direction of the zeta tubes.
"Batgirl," he said sharply as he realized where she was going, "The team is not to know of you, even the league doesn't know. Do not go over there and blow your cover!"
"I won't blow my cover, I'll say I'm Batgirl, that's my cover, nothing to be blown about it," she sneered in anger, before turning on her heel, the cape on her costume swishing after her and stepping into the zeta tube.
Mount Justice
RECOGNIZE GUEST
The team looked up in confusion as the familiar voice announced the arrival of a guest.
"Be on guard," Kaldur said swiftly pulling his water bearers out. The action had a ripple effect, and soon Artemis had her bow and somehow Robin had his hands on a few birdarangs.
There was a gasp from M'gann as she was pulled into the dark corner of the room by some kind of rope or cable. Wally sped over to her aid, only to not come out of the pitch black corner. The rest of the team stood on guard waiting for the next attack, everyone but Robin who lowered his weapons as a grin appeared on his small face.
Next was Artemis, who was dragged to the other side of the room and after someone or something more like a shadow jumped Conner, who crashed to the floor, leaving only the Atlantian and the young bird left.
"Robin stay on guard," said the leader quietly as he made a circle around looking for the intruder.
"Alright! Come out Batgirl!" the small bird called, much to the confusion of the teenager next to him. Slowly a female form walked from the shadows with a look of rage on her face. But once her eyes found Robin she ran at him, kneeling down wordlessly and clutching him in a tight embrace.
"You know this women?" Kaldur asked, shock written across his face.
"Course I do! Me and Batsy go wwaaayy back!" The young bird said with a grin. "But why are you here?" Robin continued a look of concern on his face, "Has something happened to Batman?"
"No," she said coolly while shooting a glare as the others got up from where they had been tossed on the ground. The all looked at her with accusation, still unsure if they could trust her, though they trusted Robin's judgment.
"Hey what was that for?" Wally asked speeding up to the bat pair with a frown on his face. Batgirl turns to him with a glare that seems to get worse as the seconds go by. The glare was far worse than any Batglare, it was probably even above the DaddyBats glare, no this was the MommaBats glare.
"What was that for?" The young women all but yells, "That was for letting this happen to my little brother!" She screamed at the team as a whole, letting each and every one of them feel her wrath and experience firsthand what a MommaBats glare feels like.
"Hey you don't have to yell," the young bird said with a slight glare at the older girl. She was yelling at his friends.
"You're right I don't have to yell," Batgirl said in an eerily clam voice, "Because I can just beat the shit out of them for harming my baby bird!" She continued with a clinched fist ready to strike down any of the teens.
The tension between all of them abruptly ended when Robin pushed through all of them and ran to the shadowed corner of the room.
"Mmaaaakkkkeee them stop!" He said as he walked to the shadows edge where Batman met him stepping out. "Pllleeeaassseee," he continued with a cheeky grin knowing he could get away with almost anything right now because of his age.
Batman glared at his oldest protégé who walked out the room as she glanced at her young bird. He swiftly followed after, glaring at each of the teens in turn.
"That's bat for we're screwed," grumbled Wally as he plopped down in the couch in gloom fearing for the worst.
-BREAKLINE-
"You cannot leave with these- these children!" The young women exclaimed.
"Do I need to remind you that you are younger than most of 'these children'," the Dark Knight said dryly to his protégé.
"I don't care, because we both know I am a hell of a lot more responsible than them!" Which raised an eye twitch from Batman, somehow communicating for the girl to elaborate.
"Okay look, I trust them even less with our baby bird then you do, which is saying something, so I propose that I stay here with the team and watch after Robin as almost a babysitter, but god don't use that term. I don't trust them to keep him safe, especially after this little stunt," the girl all but growled at her mentor.
"Then stay," he said although she watched his eyes and could understand that he agreed with her and wanted his baby bird as safe as she did.
Without another word she entered back into the living room with a look more of skepticism then annoyance. The team started back, some of them (Wally, Artemis, and Conner) glared back at the masked girl while the others looked at her in blatant curiosity and then there was Robin.
"Batgirl! Are you gonna stay? Are you part of the team?" the young acrobatic said excitedly as he ran up to his friend and hugged her legs.
"No I'm simply staying to watch you and make sure you aren't hurt while Bats comes up with a cure for this madness," she said with a slight smile at her unofficial younger brother.
A coughing fit came from Wally, with the word 'Babysitter' hidden amongst the coughs, earning him the MommaBat glare again, which had him cowering behind Conner. Robin acted as though he hadn't heard and simple grabbed Batgirls hand leading her down a hallway.
"Here I'll show you around," his small voice said as the two walked away.
This was meant to be a one shot, but I may continue it with another chapter, I have yet to decide. If I did write another chapter the story would ultimately turn into prob three or four chapters showing what happens to Robin and then an epilogue of the team after Batgirl leaves and what the league has to say about Batman hiding a protégé
