I wrote this story as an attempt to help myself and fans of the cartoon gain some closure after Warner Brothers axed it after its second season.
I promise to try to stay as true to the series as possible, using the DC Animated Universe Wikia as a guide and write the characters as themselves as much as as I can.

My story is set after the last episode of Season 2. I can't say for sure that Zee and Ro will end up together, even if I am leaning towards that direction, because I want to let their interaction evolve as organically as possible, so we will see what happens!

Enjoy guys, and don't stop writing fanfiction!

CHAPTER ONE


~ present day ~

Ro enters the apartment using her butt to push the door open, her hands full of grocery bags. "Zee, a little help please!", she calls out.

Zee appears from the living room and quickly takes the bags from her hands.

He shifts them to the kitchen counter as Ro kicks off her sneakers by the door before joining him in the kitchen.

As they start putting the food away, Ro reflects on how 'normal' this all was.

She still couldn't quite get over it.

A mere few months ago they had been fugitives on the run from the NSA and now...

*Ro's flashback*

They had found Selig.

They'd been floating around from city to city, searching for the scientists who had worked on creating Zeta, who would and could help emancipate Zee when they had gotten word that Selig and his assistant had survived the Gnosis explosion and had been relocated to a makeshift lab in Gotham so he could continue his work.

That nugget of information had not been easy to come across; in fact it was Batman who had tipped them off.

He knew everything that went on in the city under his watch and knew that Zee would appreciate the info.

They had been running through downtown Central City the day he had contacted them, trying to evade bolts of electromagnetic pulse being shot at them by NSA agents.

Zee was running a fair way in front of her to scope what was ahead when Ro heard a loud static noise coming from her backpack.

"ZEE! DID YOU - HUFF HUFF - PUT A THINGAMAJIG IN MY BACKPACK?!"

"WHAT?"

"I SAID, -HUFF- DID YOU PUT SOMETHING IN MY BACKPACK?!"

"WHAT?!"

"DID YOU - OH FOR THE LOVE OF - FOLLOW ME!"

As they turned a corner Ro jerked her head towards a Macy's departmental store to indicate that they should hide in there - the number of civilians that were shopping in there would cause NSA ground agents to ceasefire, at least in the complex.

WHOOP DEE DOO! Luck was in their favor today, Macy's was having a sale.

Even West wouldn't be dumb enough to fire any weapons in a crowd this dense.

They quickly blended in with all the other shoppers, keeping an eye on all possible exits and NSA agents.

Ro headed towards the men's clothing area, yanking on Zee's arm and dragged them both into a free changing stall. Even in a sale, Ro knew that the men's department wouldn't be as crowded as the rest of the place.

Their scrapes with the NSA had become more frequent, although they noticed that Agent Bennet had been suspiciously absent from their more recent encounters.

Ro grabbed her backpack as Zee tried to plan an escape route while simultaneously keeping an eye out for NSA agents with his extendable optic camera from under the door of the stall.

She knew they couldn't escape while whatever it was in her backpack was emitting such a racket, it would give them away in heatbeat.

In an instant Ro locates the offending item and pulls it out. It was the device that Batman had given her to contact him when they lost Zee the last time they were in Gotham.

Zee had explained awhile ago that it was a portable ham radio and it was very old technology, practically obsolete. Nobody used it anymore.
Then he had gone on about how it used frequencies to work aaaaannnd she had stopped listening about there.

She hadn't returned it because she thought they might need his help again one day. Meh, it wasn't like he had asked for it back.

"Ze...e..kch...kch...over... Ro...an...you...hear...e?"

Ro instinctively pressed the big black button before speaking into it.

"Batman? Hello?"

"Uurn..kcch ...ls."

"What? Could you repeat that? I can't hear you properly."

"KCH...Di..al...dial.. ..tur.n...em."

There were only two dials, one for volume and the other one Ro guessed was for..uh..clarity?

She twiddled with it before Batman's voice became more coherent then turned the volume down so they wouldn't attract any attention to themselves.

"Zeta, Ro can you hear me now?"

"Yes, we can hear you but uh, this isn't the best time Batman."

Ro was whispering and knew that Zee's super enhanced hearing abilities could pick up the conversation so she didn't bother moving closer to him.

"NSA?"

"Yup. They need to be paid to do SOMETHING", Ro responded dryly.

Behind his command center, Batman gave a smirk. Girl had moxie, had to give her that.

"Where are you and Zeta now?"

"In a changing room of a Macy's, downtown Central City, why?"

"I want you to meet me at Grant Park near the Alan Grant monument tomorrow at midnight. Think you both can get to Gotham by then?"

She looked over at Zee to see what his response was. He nodded his head.

"We should have sufficient time."

"Copy that. See you then."

The radio went dead. Ro had returned it to her backpack, slung it over her shoulders and crouched close to her companion. Zee had almost finished planning an escape when his camera picks up an image of West, sweeping the area with a hologram scanner.

Sure enough, not long after that they heard West yell, "OVER HERE IN THE CHANGING STALL!"

That had been their cue.

Zee forced the door to the changing room outwards, which knocked over racks of clothing that had sent West wheeling backwards, clearing their path from the stalls to the cash registers which were backlogged with shoppers.

Ro followed close to his heels as they ran towards the cashiers, with Zee letting Ro get ahead of him so he could scoop her up bridal style. Then he vaulted them over the cashiers, crowd and all and landed on the other side, just clearing the bagging area.

"Please excuse us", Zee had said apologetically to the crowd of shocked people who were waiting in line.

Zee then holomorphed himself and Ro into a middle aged man carrying a golf bag before running off towards the food court.

When they got there, they had spotted one NSA agent but she was just leaving the area.

Zee set Ro back down on her feet and morphed them into janitors and they headed to the service entrance.

Once outside, Ro had scouted for any signs of agents. There were none but there was an ice delivery van that was finished unloading and was ready to leave the premises.

Zee unlocked the back doors and ushered Ro in. They got in just as the van was backing out of the alley.

There were large blocks of ice everywhere. It was cold in the van and it made Ro shiver but they wouldn't be in there for long. As soon as the truck slowed to a halt, they would jump back out.

"We need to get to a Ground Wire to check transport itineraries to Gotham City," Zee said to Ro.

Ro really wonders about his creators sometimes. This was 2044, why hadn't they just built him with wi-fi capabilities?

"How bout we do that at the next city? The NSA would probably still be on the lookout for us here."

Zee had agreed with her assesment. Before reaching their next stop, Zee huddled close to her so he could warm her with his internal heating units.

Ro had smiled at him appreciatively and wondered why Batman wanted to meet.

Midnight, huh. Why you gotta be so dramatic all the time Batman?

*End of flashback*

Zee noticed that Ro had spaced out and tapped her on the nose with his finger.

Ro jerked backwards in surprise.

"Were you calculating your calorie intake for today?", Zee teased.

Ro looked down to see that she was holding a chocolate bar in her hands before ripping the wrapper off and breaking the bar into smaller pieces.

"Want some?" she offered Zee, and held out a piece for him with two fingers.

- end of chapter one -