*I don't own Young Justice, but if I did the Speed Force saves Wally*

Thoughts

"Talking"

I know, I know Young Justice ended. Poorly, but in a very DC Comics manner. And I

know, this is set right at the beginning of the 5 year jump, so this won't satisfy any of your Save-Wally-West feels, but I have been hashing this story out for over a year so here goes nothing

Chapter 1 – Prologue

It was supposed to be a simple stealth mission. Break into the warehouse, steal data, apprehend felons, leave warehouse. But as the team knows rather well, simple and stealth have never been their strong suits. When the gun fire started, Robin and Zatanna had been in the rafters waiting for their cue to descend into the control room. Aqualad and Kid Flash had just finished taking out the exterior guards when Miss Martian had been spotted by a gang member who accidentally dumped his soda onto her cloaked form. After she was seen, Superboy decided sneaky really wasn't his thing and some idiot was shooting at his girlfriend. Both Artemis and Rocket took this as their cue and came crashing through the skylights to take out the interior guards.

Gross I'm covered in soda! Miss Martian complained as she dodged the bullets.

No worries sweet cheeks, now you're just twice as sweet~ Wally thought as he ran in through the rear door, Aqualad on his heels. They both took out the guys standing guard.

Just then, Artemis shot an arrow that narrowly missed Kid Flash and tasered the guy sneaking up behind him. Wally, you know I can hear you right? she thought in exasperation.

Totally Beautiful, I just think Miss M might miss the comforts of the Wal-man Wally replied as he stopped to wink at Artemis who just rolled her eyes.

Wally head in the game, the goons are headed your way. Aqualad said as he headed to meet up with Superboy and Miss Martian at the center of the warehouse.

I'm on it – ACK As KF raced towards the goons he didn't see the spilt soda and slipped knocking down Miss Martian, Artemis, and Rocket who all went flying into Superboy and Aqualad. Robin and Zatanna seeing their teammates in danger jumped down to give aid when the goons pulled out three grenades and threw them at the tangled heroes.

They had been expecting a BANG BANG BANG. Instead they heard a ppffffftttt noise as the three grenades released a foul smelling yellow gas. Startled by the gas grenades, the whole team, all eight members, breathed in this putrid smelling gas by accident.

No! Fear gas, No one breathe! Robin shouted Miss M break the mental link right now!

*koff* "It's a little late for the no breathing thing, Rob!" Kid Flash shouted back as he dodged suppression fire.

As the team regrouped and gathered outside of the gas cloud, the gun fire and shouting had stopped. "They're running! Quick after them!" shouted Superboy.

"NO! Stop, scrap the mission. Everyone to the roof now!" Robin commanded, as he launched himself towards the closest skylight.

The cold night air of Gotham filled their lungs as the cacophony of nightlife bustle swell around them. Once everyone reached the top of the warehouse, Robin closed his holo-comp and turned to face the team.

"What the heck, Rob!" Kid hollered.

"Yeah, Robin?! Just cause it's your town doesn't mean you get to call the shots." Artemis chimed in. "I mean Kaldur's still the leader."

Kaldur raised a hand to stop KF and Artemis' complaints "Despite this, you appear very troubled. What is the matter with this Fear gas?"

Robin moved around Kaldur and walked over to Superboy and Miss Martian. "Fear gas causes the victim to hallucinate their worst fears." Robin replied coolly and then without warning he spun on M'gann. He pressed a syringe into her arm then turned to inject Connor with another syringe. After his surprise attack on the two aliens he flipped away to land near Artemis. Once he landed he shrugged on at the group "Miss M and Connor both hate needles they would have tensed up and the needles would have broken."

Then Robin turned to Artemis who stepped back from the clearly demented bird. "No worries, Arty. That was my last syringe, oh by the way, were you in Gotham the night Scarecrow attacked the city two years ago?" Robin asked offhandedly.

"Yeah, wh-", but before she finished the rest of her sentence Robin sprayed her with sleep gas.

Kid Flash caught his now unconscious girlfriend, "Okay! Robin no more messing around! What the hell are you doing!?" he shouted as the rest of the team moved away from the bird.

Robin raised his hands in surrender and his ever present smirk fell from his face as he confronted his wary team. "First, Miss Martian and Superboy are the two most dangerous people to go on a fear-driven hallucinated rampage. They needed the antidote the most. Second, the more you are exposed to fear gas the worse the effects are on the person, now Artemis will only suffer from a terrible dream instead of a living nightmare. As for the rest of you, this is the first time any of you have been exposed to the toxin, so you won't hallucinate. Instead, you will all suffer from panic attacks, but nothing too serious."

Everyone stared at Robin in stunned silence. After a moment Zatanna asked "Why did you tell M'gann to close the psychic link?"

Robin put his hands down "If you four would please sit down and start taking slow deep breaths it should help control the panic you should be feeling by now." Then he turned to Miss M. "Please call the Bioship, we need to get the five of them back to the cave as soon as possible. Batman and the other leaguers are waiting on standby with more antidotes."

The others did as they were told, and none of them noticed Robin's hand shake as he typed into his holo-computer. "Hey, you didn't answer Zatanna's question." Rocket stated from her seated position.

"Miss M would have projected everyone's fears throughout the team via the link. It would cause more panic and unwanted chaos." Robin replied smoothly, but he didn't turn to face them instead he continued to type away.

Once inside the mountain, the teams' respective mentors administered the antidotes to them. However both Batman and Robin vanished the moment the Bioship landed.

"Why is Artemis knocked out?" Green Arrow asked as he carried her from the ship.

"'Cause Rob' gassed her to prevent her from hallucinating too badly." KF said over the noise of the Flash's minor freak out about how Wally's mom would kill him.

"Really?" GA questioned.

"Indeed." J'onn relied "Batman had to incapacitate me as well, when I had first encounter fear gas."

"Wow, Uncle J'onn I never knew that Batman would go to such measures, but I guess that explains Robin's behavior when he was dealing with us. He had to surprise me so he could inject me with the antidote." M'gann stated.

"Speaking of Robin, where is he? Heck, where is Batman?" Zatanna asked as she stood up from where Superman had told her sit while she recovered. Everyone paused what they were doing in order to look around for the Dynamic Duo.

Then a sudden crash was heard from around the corner, as the heroes ran to the source of the sound they watched Robin fall from the rafts and land with a messy roll only to stagger franticly back to his feet. Before he finished standing Batman leapt down and planted a solid kick dead center of his back sending him sprawling back to the ground. Batman place a knee down on Robin's flaying form while he twisted one of the bird's arms to pin it to his back.

At this point Robin let out a blood curdling scream, not a shout or a cry of pain, but a scream of absolute terror. No one besides Batman had ever heard Robin make such a noise. The stunned heroes had no idea what was going on, but Batman used their hesitation to his advantage as he grabbed Robin's other arm and inject him with the antidote.

Suddenly the heroes were in motion rushing towards the battling duo, but before they could reach the two bats Batman stopped them with a look. They stopped to watch Batman continue to hold Robin as he squirmed and tried to get free. After several long minutes Robin finally stopped trying to get free, he just lay there gasping as he tried to get his breathing under control. Finally, Robin spoke "…lemme up… I'm okay…"

Batman didn't move for another minute, but reluctantly he stood up and Robin slowly climbed to his feet. His head was bowed; he wouldn't look at anyone, especially not Batman. After a little more silence, Batman finally spoke in a cold quiet voice "How many fear gas antidotes should you carry at all time?"

Robin flinched away, but replied "Three…"

"How many did you have?"

"…two."

"Why?"

"Because I forgot to refill my belt before I went out tonight…"

"Why?"

"I didn't think to check…"

"We will discuss this matter further when we return to the cave."

"Yes, sir."

With that, Batman turned on his heels and started to head for the other room. Without warning, Robin reached out and grabbed Batman's cape, head still bowed as he stared at the floor. Batman stopped and looked back at Robin, and he lifted his head to just stare at his mentor. The two stood there for quite sometime just staring at each other. Then Batman spoke in a soft voice "It's okay to admit that you were afraid…"

"Știu ... Eu sunt tatăl rău că nu am vrut să fiu lipsit de griji și să vă faceți griji ..." Robin mumbled. [1]

Then the big bad Batman let out a sigh then chuckled. THE Batman just chuckled. And this isn't your run of the mill chuckle this was a Bat chuckle. The ones so low that if the room hadn't been absolutely silent you might have missed it. This chuckle might have been used to strike fear in the hearts of men, but now it was used in a proper circumstance and it was still awe-inspiring and terrifying. He replied in the same language "Micul meu pasăre, nu am încetat niciodată griji pentru tine. Tot ce vreau este să fie un pic mai preocupați de siguranța dumneavoastră." [2]

This time Robin cracked a wry smile and replied "Știu că multumesc tata ... putem să mergem acasă acum?" [3]

Batman nodded and they both headed for the zeta tubes. Neither of them took any notice to the gawking crowd that had gathered around the two of them. As they walked through the zeta tubes, Robin still held onto Batman's cape.

This chapter is really just the sample of my writing and will help give way to the actual plot of the story. Yes, Robin is Romani in my story, yes I used Romanian for the dialog, and yes I am a strong believer in Daddybats. The couples that I will use will be as follows RobinXZatanna, WallyXArtemis, ConnorXM'gann, and KaldurXRaquel. Thanks for reading, don't forget to review. See you next chapter!

[1] I know... I'm sorry Dad I didn't mean to be careless and make you worry...

[2] My little bird, I have never stopped worrying about you. All I want is you to be a little more concerned about your safety.

[3] I know, thank you Dad…can we please go home now?