"We may be in a different universe. Baywatch, we may never get to go home." Artemis said angrily thinking about her own mother.
"Of course we will get home." Robin said, "Batman, Green Arrow, and Flash will never stop looking for us."
"They better not." Kid Flash said as he laid back down. "I am starving guys, any chance for some food?"
Tony looked at the diverse teenagers, the small black haired kid who dressed really brightly and had a creepy smile, the blonde archer who looked like she wanted to fight someone, and the ginger who smiled brightly at his own mentioning of food. They had told him they fought crime, but none of them looked very old. He still couldn't rule out that they weren't committed rpging, except they did seem nervous about wanting to go back home.
They looked Spiderman's age, not mentioning age again, to them when he recruited and am currently sponsoring a child soldier, that he made his algebra grade tank when he didn't get a chance to study. He gave a mental note to himself as he thought of the strange adolescents.
"Hello Robin", the masked boy went to a drawer and pulled out energy drinks beside the IVs." Robin cackled as he watched Tony's face light up in horror as the speedster chugged eight Red Bulls. Robin knew that caffeine and sugar in energy drinks didn't effect speedsters at all.
"Not the most nutritionally, but I don't feel like I'm going to pass out anymore. So anyway, guy's another universe? Are the rest of the team here? How did we get here? Who did we take on? I bet it was that Klarion. I really hate him." Wally asked Robin and Artemis. He looked warily at Tony.
"We don't remember, we were hoping you did. You gave me a scare, Wa- Kid Flash, I found you and Robin passed out in a field. No one had emergency rations and the comms weren't picking up a thing. I don't think it was Klarion, it seems more of a Lex Luthor move, getting rid of the partners, not dead just missing, no ties to them." Artemis speculated. "There's no League here."
Wally was now sitting up on the medical bed as he and Artemis were getting into a lively discussion on which villain could have sent them to a different earth. Robin was now displaying a holographic computer while no one was paying attention, Tony was intently watching the two fight over Klarion the Witch Boy or Lex Luthor. They had no clue how hard it was to keep from making fun of those villains, 'witch boy' and 'baldy' didn't sound that bad.
Robin found this earth wasn't the same at all, most heroes weren't masked, and aliens were seen as the epicenter of all evil. Odd the aliens in this world, weren't Martian or any he recognized. He also found the years were off, on his world it was Nov. 20th, 2012, and here it was May 16, 2017. Almost a year after the Avengers were torn apart. Fighting among themselves, they had been a close-knit group until that time. He had hacked J.A.R.V.I.S. and found files and data that would be useful later as he saved it to his wrist computer. All the Avengers, with the exception of two, were metahumans.
Half the league didn't have powers. He was awakened from his thoughts with the sound of Tony screaming. It wasn't a scream that immediately made you realize what you had done it was more of a child that had its favorite toy was taken.
"You hacked J.A.V.I.S!"
"Please, a four-year-old could have done it." Robin stated. "If you didn't want it hacked don't leave it unprotected."
Tony got over being mad quickly, "You kids are awesome. If no one claims you I want to keep you. I'll name you, Diana, Timothy, and Anthony. You'll be awesome to have around as my protege's"
"No one will be adopting us. We have a home and families." Robin said in a perfect imitation of the Dark Knight himself. "Our mentors and families are looking for us right now, they won't rest until they know what happened to us." That and he was not going by Anthony.
Artemis didn't look so sure, but Kid Flash was shaking his head in agreement, as he ate a banana. Tony wondered where he had gotten it. He was still hooked up to the IV and seemingly, hadn't moved an inch. Tony hoped these⦠kids weren't evil as strange as there were. In the short fight, the ebony haired boy and blonde archer could hold their own. No way would they have surrendered if 'Kid Flash' wasn't starving to death. Tony had so many questions for the teens.
"One question, why was he starving to death," Tony pointed to Wally, "and not you two?"
"He has a faster than normal metabolism. That's all." Robin said before Wally could, he gave both Wally and Artemis a look that stated, 'don't elaborate'.
They didn't say anymore and Tony left them to get them something for them all to eat.
When they were alone Robin disabled the audio in the room and explained what he found out about this world. "The Sokovia Accords made all hero's and metas retire or sign it. The UN has control over them. So, KF stick to fast metabolism not your real power, I don't know what they would do if they found out. I think we should play it cool; not cause any alarm or start any fights. Play up, scared teenagers don't act helpless, or too confident until we know more about them."
Artemis and Wally agreed. "It sucks about no running. What happens if I get hurt and an hour later it's like it never happened?" Wally asked still pondering what it all meant.
"Don't get hurt, Baywatch that's the plan." She smacked him upside his head playfully. "You can live a slower for a day or two the League will find us."
"Yeah, but what happened what happens if they think we're dead. We have to be careful. We still don't know what happened on our earth." Robin cautioned.
Vision had contacted Captain America and told him of the strange situation going on. Tony had promised not to turn them in if they would help with the children. Manfully, Captain America didn't roll his eyes, Hawkeye, however, did.
"How do we know this isn't a trap? Kids from a different earth, how stupid do you think we are?" Clint asked angrily. He hadn't seen his family in months; S.H.E.I.L.D. staked out his house and were watching everything Laura did. He was seething in anger.
Vision showed them the fight that Artemis and Robin had put up against Iron Man. They all were impressed at how they worked together and that they only surrendered when they couldn't see a way out that didn't risk one of them getting hurt.
"We'll help, but only because I don't trust Tony with kids." Captain America said and shut off the communications. "Anyone who doesn't want to come doesn't have to. I want to meet these kids, they work well together. I don't want Tony to do anything that would cause them to think we are the enemy."
It was decided that Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, and Captain America would go back to the Avengers tower. For better or for worse. They started on the drive to the tower where they used to belong.
Wanda was quiet for the most part, "The children need to be protected they don't belong here we need to get them back to their earth," she reasoned.
Black Widow had been busy when she saw the message Tony had sent her along with a video of children fight him. It made her pause, they were no doubt well trained, she thought. They worked as a team and separately well. They protected the boy that was down, they had trained together that was evident. She was leaving for the Tower now. She wanted to see these children.
