Chapter 2

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Batboy and Robin

"Ok kid, I need to know how much you remember." Robin starts the conversation.

"But what about my questions? You promised you would answer them!"

"I will, I just need to know what you know so I know where to start."

"How do I know I can trust you?"

Robin took off his mask and looked the boy in the eye, well, the white slits that represent eyes.

"Bruce" Batboy gasped. How did he know his name? "You can trust me"

"o-ok" Bruce stuttered.

"Great! Now what is the last thing you remember?"

"Well I was watching Gray Ghost* with Alfred, my butler, and then I remember blacking out and waking up on the floor of a space ship"

Robin figured the "space ship" was the watchtower.

"How old did you say you were?" asked Robin.

"9 why?"

So he remembers his parent's death. That would save them some awkward moments of trying to explain why he couldn't see his parents, thought Robin.

"Will you answer my questions now?" the boy breathed impatiently.

"Ok lets see….. we are these things called superhero's and we are supposed to protect the earth. You're in our base and its called the Cave. You can take the mask off when we get you some sunglasses because we can't let anyone but me know who you are. I guess your mask has ears because your supposed to look like a bat."

" Why would I want to look like a bat?! They are so creepy!"

"I don't know maybe its supposed to be symbolic or something. Anyways the red guy is a robot and he called you batman, great how am I going to explain this, he must have confused you with someone else. Also the girl with green skin is a Martian and the boy with gills is an Atlantian."

By the time Dick had finished explaining Bruce's jaw was on the floor.

"Oh. My. Gosh. This is too weird! I am going to close my eyes and wake up and this will all be over. I will be able to run down the stairs and have a nice breakfast and then go to school and forget all of this."

Dick looked at the young boy sympathetically and said "I'm sorry Bruce, this isn't a dream and we need you to cooperate with us, ok. What's going to happen is we are going to go out there and we are going to pretend this is normal and you just have to go with the flow."

"Ok. But can I call Alfred first?"

"Sure"

A few minutes later Alfred was debriefed on the situation and assured the young master that it was quite all right to stay with them and trust them. Apparently this was the only prompting the boy needed and agreed to do what ever was asked of him.

"Ok now it is your turn to go outside and let me tell the other boy what is going on, ok Bruce?"

"Ok. Just one question: What do I call you and what will you call me?" the boy asked staring up at his elder.

Shoot! I didn't think of that! Robin thought.

"Number one: that is two questions and two: lets call you…. B. for Bruce."

And Batman Dick thought to himself.

"Sounds good." And with that he walked out of the room to get the other boy.

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Conner and Superman

Oh my gosh, what do I do with a kid? Is he too old for pacifiers? What do boys his age even like? Hurry up Robin! Superboy was freaking out. He had no idea how to deal with a kid. He had never even been one! And it didn't help that this kid as an adult had made it pretty clear he wanted nothing to do with him.

"Sooooo what do you want to do?" Conner started nervously rubbing the back of his neck.

"I don't know. What kinda games ya got?"

Games. Games. Games. Did the cave even have games? Oh I know Wally left his Nerf guns over! Maybe he wants to play with those.

"Uhhh we have Nerf guns." Conner finally replied.

"Cool! I love those! I've got one at home and I use it to shoot the chickens until Pa comes out and tells me to "leave those poor chickens alone"! He said the last part in a gruff voice and Conner could only assume he was imitating his father.

"Ok, so should I go get them?"

"Yeah totally! Lead the way!"

Superboy hesitantly lead the boy clad in blue to Wally's room and stopped at the door. It was weird having this man who used to hate him now be a boy who was completely friendly with him.

"Uhhh I have to open the door now."

"Ok then do it. You didn't have to tell me about it."

"Sorry."

"Just open the door already I might die of boredom."

Conner typed in the passcode. Wally had given it to Megan in hopes she would come in and hang out some time and it just so happened he was in hearing range. Wally wasn't the quietist boy in the first place, and having super hearing just added to that. They grabbed the Nerf guns and headed out of the room. Wally wouldn't mind as long as they returned them in working condition.

"So what are the ground rules?" asked Superkid.

"Well why don't we stay in the living room, and I think that is about it. But try not to break anything."

"Lets get this started then!" yelled the boy.

For the next thirty minutes the two boys ran around the room yelling and throwing taunts back and forth. Then the boy they had seen earlier came in and started to say something when he froze.

"Hey! Want to play Nerf guns with us? Its so fun! Conner is like the best at it." Yelled Superkid. He waited and expected to hear yes, but the answer he got was way off of what anyone would think. The boy in the black cape simply stared. After about 20 seconds Clark tried to break the silence.

"Hey. Do you want to play or not?"

"NO!" the other boy screamed and ran out of the room.

"What was that about." Scoffed the blue boy.

"I don't know."

Conner was confused. He didn't think Batman had emotion and it scared him to see that much from him. How messed up was his childhood if he freaked out over a Nerf gun? Nerf guns must have done something awful to him for him to react that way. Maybe that is why he never uses guns even though they would be so much more effective.

"Should we go after him?" asked Superkid.

"Maybe we should go get Robin." Conner whispered back but it was too late, the boy wonder was right behind them.

"AHHH!" the supers screamed.

"HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!" yelled the boy

"Guys ,where is Batboy?" asked Robin.

"Uh, you mean the other boy? 'Cuz if you did he just ran out of the room crying."

"What did you guys do?" Robin asked, his voice now surprisingly serious.

"Why do you assume I did anything?" asked the blue boy, "all we did was invite him to join our Nerf gun war. He was the one who freaked out for no apparent reason."

"no no no no no. Guys, I have to go find him….. stay put."

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Robin had searched every room he could think of and Bruce was still no where to be found.

"B! B!" he called not wanting to put his secret identity at risk.

Ugh! Where is he? How do you lose a 9 year old boy?

That's when he heard a noise. Not a loud noise but a noise none the less, coming from the vents.

Of course! He is still a bat and bats for some odd reason love vents.

Robin climbed in the vents and began to call the boy's name softly.

"Bruce where are you."

"Over here." A small voice called out. Robin followed the noise to the vents just over the training room.

"How did you know I was here?" the boy asked in a small voice, tears still streaming down his now unmasked face.

"Just a hunch." Robin snuggled up to the boy in the cramped air vent.

"Ready to go back down?"

"As long as I don't have to play with guns."

"Deal".

The two bats crawled down to the training room and were about to leave when batboy wrapped his arms around his protégé and mumbled thanks.

"What for?"
"For coming after me. No one ever does, they all leave me be and figure when I am ready I will come out."

"Well in that case no problem. I'm just glad you are feeling the aster now."

"The what?"

"Aster. You know the opposite of disaster."

"Uh ok"

"Lets just go find the others."

"Agreed." Then the two boys walked hand and hand to the living room.

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* I heard somewhere that Batman watched Gray Ghost as a kid but if I'm wrong than oh well.

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