Disclaimer: I don't own YJ. Why else would Supermartian be happening?
Hello. For those of you new to how my stories work this is where I rant about things before I actually start writing the chapter, acknowledge reviewers, or just unprofessionally give you more info about my life that you really did not want. But since I don't have anything to say this is pointlessly here.
Chapter I
It was a highly unsuspecting day when Robin disappeared. Superboy was standing next to Miss Martian in the kitchen as she failed at preparing a California Roll, his eyes glancing ever so surreptitiously to the fuzzy screen of the TV, not wanting to miss a moment of his favorite part. Kaldur was pushing himself too hard in training, still trying to get over Tula, despite his new task of trying to snuff out the mole on the team, which he had hardly given any thought to. Artemis was on the couch, sneaking peeks at Superboy as he looked her way – well, towards the way of the static on the TV. Wally was nowhere to be found, and since neither was Robin, everyone just suspected they were there off doing something that would eventually lead to trouble. Trouble no one wanted to deal with at the moment. So, they ignored their absence. It was only when Wally ran into the kitchen shouting that anyone sensed anything was wrong.
"Guys! Guys! You got to help! Dr. Light has Robin!"
"What do you mean?" Superboy asked.
"Where?" Artemis inquired, stepping up from the couch.
"Just outside! Come on!"
"Shouldn't we get Kaldur…?" Megan questioned.
"No time!" Wally insisted, grabbing Miss Martian's hand and leading her out the "backdoor."
Once everyone was outside, they started to search over the large rocks.
"Do you remember where you saw him?" Artemis interrogated warily, at this point doubting Wally's story. This could all be another joke.
"Oh my glob! I see him!" Wally shouted, running to a spot far to the left. The rest of the team ran over at normal speeds, besides Miss Martian, who had flown. Superboy secretly envied her for that. When they reached the spot, all were confused as they saw a red, gold, and black Kevlar suit pooled in a heap. Wally picked up the bundle, and all were surprised to see a small boy in his arms, maybe around the age of three or four.
"Is that…?" Artemis pointed to the kid. Wally nodded.
"Batman is going to eat us alive."
~*~FANFICTION~*~KEEPS~*~ERASING~*~MY~*~BORDERS~*~
Wally sat in a steel chair overlooking all the records of Dr. Light they had on file that had been spilled all over the table in front of him. Batman sat in the chair on the opposite side, his Batglare subdued somewhat by the cowl. But that still didn't stop the agonizing stare that seemed to take on new life once his retinas and rods closed in on the intangible feeling of having an invisible hand reach down his throat and pull his heart out. He could barely breath as veins (metaphorically, of course) reached out for atriums that no longer resided within his ribcage. He let out a small whimper before Batman finally stopped.
"Now, tell me, Kid Flash, what happened out there when you two were out on the rocks?"
"Dr. Light, he caught us by surprise. We were just sitting there, skipping rocks out into the ocean when I heard him scream. I turned around and Dr. Light was there, he injected Robin with some sort of black liquid, then came after me. I ran inside to get help. When we came back out, he was gone and Robin was…like that." He pointed towards were Megan was holding the sleeping vigilante.
There was a low roll of notes, almost like the buzzing of a bee. He turned to see the Dark Knight, with his lips opening and closing subtly.
"Are you…growling at me?"
"I'm going to meet with the League's doctors to see if we can't reverse whatever Dr. Light has injected him with." He stood up, ignoring his question completely, "In the meantime, Robin will stay here. I'll be back with the doctors to run tests as soon as possible, but with how busy they are, I don't know how long that could be. Now, no giving him grapefruit (that inexplicably makes him hyper), do not let him trick you into a game of hide-and-seek, that almost always ends in disaster, do not give him a dictionary, for reasons I believe are obvious, no tricking him into taking off his mask, do not forcefully take it off of him, and after this is over, your opinion of him as a teammate should not change. After all, this is not his fault." He looked to Wally accusingly, then headed out the door.
~*~OOOOH~*~THIS~*~IS~*~A~*~BORDER~*~OOOOH~*~
The first night he stayed with the team, he was sound asleep before any of it actually happened. Or, well, so they thought. Wally awoke to find the screeching of moving chairs against a linoleum floor. He opened one eye lazily, then finally got the other one up. He walked over to the kitchen to find Robin there, trying to put a chair next to the cabinet so he could reach its contents.
"Whatcha doing?" he asked. Robin, out of shock lost his footing and fell off the tall stool. Kid Flash sped to catch him, then set the boy down on the floor, patting his head.
"What were you doing all the way up there?"
He stared up at Wally with wide-eyes for quite sometime, before he shrunk back behind the stool and shook his head.
"Oh, come on, Robin you can tell me."
"I- I was hungry." His voice was shaking and it sounded so…so young, younger than Wally had been anticipating.
"Were you, now?" he asked, bending down on his knees to get eye-level with him. Robin squirmed and held the bar stool closer.
"It's okay I'm a friend." He held out a hand. Robin reluctantly took it. With his hand, he hoisted him into his arms and looked around in the cabinet he was trying to reach.
"What did you have in mind?"
"Um, just some cereal."
"Okay, then." He took a blue bowl out of the cabinet and placed it on a corner of the countertop, closest to the fridge. One-handedly, he took out some Honey Nut Cheerios and poured it into the bowl, along with the milk. He put them both back in their respective places.
"Here." He set the boy down on the stool and pulled the bowl over to him, throwing a spoon in next to it, "Dig in!"
"T-thank you…"
He ruffled his ebony hair, "No problem."
~*~WOULDJA~*~LOOK~*~AT~*~THAT~*~ANOTHER~*~BORDER~*~
When Robin woke up the next day, he was in the arms of Miss Martian, but there was something off about her, her arms were moving back and forth slightly. Meaning…she was either running or rocking him. He propped himself up on his hands and looked around.
"Who are you?" he inquired with wide, fearful eyes.
"I'm M'gann M'orzz. But you can call me Megan. This is Artemis," she pointed to the blonde sitting on the couch next to her, "This is Superboy, but you can call him Conner," she pointed to the man sitting next to her, "And this is Aqualad, but you can call him Kaldur." She pointed to another man, "And I think you're already acquainted with Wally?" He nodded, "Good. We're going to take care of you while Batman is meeting with some scientists up at Watchtower." She smiled down at him, "So, Robin, what do you want to do?"
"Umm…"
AN: Hurray for short introductory chapter! Now, I know this story may seem like your typical Robin's-de-aged-let's-have-some-fun fic, but it's not. Maybe for the first two or three chapters, but after that it gets good. :D I'm so excited! But I'm going to have some major trouble writing for the next two chapters. Sorry, I know I do this a lot, but, um, suggestions for Baby!Robin shenanigans? I have no idea what to do for that. 0.0 But from there, I have this story all mapped out. It's going to be a fun ride. There's a reason I put this in the suspense category…