Disclaimer: I do not own Batman Beyond or JLU; they belong to their respective writers, producers, and so forth. This is simply for fun and not for profit.

Summary: Terry just wanted to get home to his Gotham, not some past one, not some weird alternate dimension one, just home. Who knew time travel and the journey home could be so...troublesome.

A/N: I know I shouldn't be writing another story, but this is just going to be a series of connected one-shots for fun, sort of just snap-shots (which is why this is more of a series of one-shots than a full-out, plot-driven story). Terry (canon Terry after the Return of the Joker) will be thrown into different dimensions and universes. I have to say I was inspired by an academic article about the engendered super-body and how truly border-blurring Batman could be. Terry McGinis didn't have to be white/straight/male; he could have been anything, so long as he had a drive for justice and his dad's death pushing him.

Chapter 1: How it all began

Terry knew better than to disregard the old man's warnings, but Terry had gotten cocky after taking down the Joker—er well...Mr. Drake was essentially the Joker because of that weird chip implant. But he didn't listen to Bruce, and now he was in situation he'd rather have lived without. Now here he was chilling in the Justice League Watch Tower of the early 2000s while the present members diverted an alien invasion he wasn't allowed to partake in.

He should have known he'd see time again after Virgil Hawkins showed up, what surprised Terry though was how Bruce actually knew him somehow. Granted, he didn't know Terry's name or want to know it, but he knew that in his old age he had gained a successor of sorts. Maybe Bruce thought he was Mr. Drake?

Terry kicked his legs up onto a table in the observation deck and watched the fireworks outside the window. Being in the past sucked, a lot. He couldn't talk to anyone about anything because that would be breaking the time-traveler's code, and he couldn't interact with anyone outside of the Justice League. He had been taken up to the Watch Tower practically as soon as he appeared. Apparently he set off some big electrical signals when he landed here, and the league assumed he was a threat, so there were league members there to "greet" him.

Now he was waiting for all the scientist in the league (and man were there a lot of them) to get him back home, though there was no Gear this time. Terry sighed as he wondered if he should try hacking the teleportation system again to get out of this boring watch tower, although the last time he had tried, Bruce had disabled his suit somehow, and Terry wasn't allowed any tools to fix it (they even put this biometirc lock on them!).

Worse than all of this, Terry couldn't even warn Bruce that Mr. Drake was going to be kidnapped by the Joker. Though…maybe Mr. Drake wasn't the Robin at this time? Chief Gordon had said there were multiple Robins.

Terry knew he could blab about it if he wanted to, but the lecture Bruce would give him...well, it made telling him about Mr. Drake a lot less appealing. Plus…Terry was afraid what future would await him if he did change things. Would he be Batman? Part of him selfishly needed to be Batman, so what if that was taken away from him by changing the past for the better? Yeah the old man might be happier, and there might not have been a break in there being a Batman, but… Terri bit his lip and shook his head. No matter how much he'd want to change the past, he couldn't; beside, he told himself, Bruce probably has some sort of mind-eraser to make sure things stay as they will be if he did blab.

Ugh! This was the worst thing ever! Time travel sucked.

TBC

A/N: Next chapter... well, I gave a hint in the second, fifth, and sixth paragraphs. Will update when I update "Batman Beyond-X"