A/N: Welcome to the next chapter! Sorry for being so late... SOOOO... ON WE GO!

"I'm baaaack!"

Kidflash shouted, much to the annoyance of everyone in the main room of the mountain. The team had just got done with an impromptu four hour training session with Black Canary and Kidflash neglected to show up. None of them were in the mood to deal with the Speedster.

"Captain Cold got out again, Soooooo... Who wants to continue our story?!"

After the previous day's events, Bruce was pulling out all the stops so that Dick didn't vanish again. After he viewed the tapes many times and scanned every inch of the main room, Bruce concluded that it was some sort of magic and he admitted (Begrudgingly) that he needed some help with that factor.

"But, Bruuuuuuce!"

"I wasn't some whiny five year old, KF!"

Robin protested, he looked up from the screen of his wrist computer to glare at Wally.

"Is this your story? I don't think so."

Kidflash replied as he stuffed another handful of popcorn in his mouth.

"But-"

"SHH!"

Dick whined profusely, he had been subjected to numerous tests and like the bird he would soon be named after, didn't like to sit in one place... AT ALL.

"Stop moving, Dick."

Bruce grumbled as he tried to stick a band aid on the struggling and protesting child. Dick was making this harder on himself, he just needed to draw some blood for samples! It wasn't the end of the world, well, it actually could be if more people started to disappear. The clock on the Bat Computer read 4:25, so Bruce only had a couple minutes before Dick was pulled out of his protection again, he had gotten this information ten minutes ago when Dick had just conveniently remembered, to say the least, Bruce was extremely agitated.

4:28

"Is there anything else you can think of Dick?"

Bruce asked quickly, eyeing the clock to the left of him.

"Nope!"

Dick exclaimed cheerily as Bruce finally put the cursed band aid on, it had only taken twenty minutes.

4:29

Bruce had huge doubts that this mystical force could even get into the Batcave, much less take his ward, nobody except a select few knew his identity and-

4:30

Dick felt the same sensation come over him as the other day and he heard Bruce shouting something, but he couldn't hear it. The scene suddenly changed and he was standing on a trapeze platform with the same two cardboard slats as the day before, he looked around and the stands were empty. Above him was a colorful Big top and instead of his regular clothes, he noticed he was in a completely wrong version of his costume from the Flying Graysons.

"Hellloooo again, Cute-pie!"

Yelled the girl with the clipboard from the ground, waving said clipboard in greeting.

"Today is the death scene! Now, you have to be more dramatic than the last time! I got criticism, so maybe some screaming and crying or both at the same time! Yeah, just say what you said the first time, it'll come to you! Lights, camera, action!"

Suddenly all the lights went out and flicked back on, there was now a cheering crowd and and Pop Haley was in the center of the ring announcing something to the crowd.

"Welcome to Haley's traveling carnival! I would like to introduce... THE SOARING GRAYSON'S!"

Now he was really confused, he lived in a circus, not a carnival! And the soaring Grayson's? Everything was wrong! His cardboard Mother and Father, now alive, were swinging towards him on the trapeze, the routine itself was impossible. Then the wires started making really loud creaking noises, not just loud, really, really loud, like an elephant, but apparently, nobody but him could hear them.

"The ropes are creaking!"

He shouted to his parents. No one listened to him and his parent's continued doing their impossible routine with sick smiles on their faces.

"Get off!"

He yelled, frantically waving his arms around and jumping up and down. Still NO ONE was paying the slightest bit of attention to the young acrobat. Finally the elephant ropes broke and his parents started falling to the ground. The lights flickered again and when they turned back on he was on the ground with his cardboard parents, someone had ripped their cardboard arms and legs off and put something that looked and smelled like ketchup on them. Dick just knelt there with his mouth open, was this some sort of sick joke?

"Cut! Good job everyone! We meet back here at 7:30 tomorrow!"

With a wave of her clipboard, (Dick was starting to think it was magical) the scene transformed into the cave again.

"BRUUUUUCE!"

Six hours, forty-two minutes and thirty five seconds later The Dark Knight nearly jumped out of his skin when Dick return, screaming at the top of his lungs. Let's just say it was not a pleasant situation. When he finally calmed his ward down enough to speak coherently, he tucked him into bed. He was currently staring at the large computer screen in the cave, he was running both security camera tapes side by side to check for any differences or similarities. So far, both of them were impeccably alike, not a single molecule was different and it was frustrating the guardian of Gotham to no end. Zatara was on an off world mission, his daughter was too small and Kent Nelson retired long ago.

"Master Bruce, I suggest you get some sleep."

Alfred suggested quietly, bringing the billionaire out of his thoughts and investigation.

"I can sleep tomorrow."

"I'm afraid it is, Master Bruce."

Bruce sighed and gave a sidelong glance at the clock to satisfy Alfred.

3:45 AM

"Call and cancel my meeting tomorrow, I can reschedule another time. Tell them I'm spending quality time with Dick."

He replied as he increased his finger speed at the keyboard. Alfred pursed his lips and walked away stiffly, he wasn't going to try and fight a battle he could not win.

"Team, report to the breifing room in five."

Called a loud voice over the PA system. The Young Justice team looked up at the speakers in surprise, nearly all of them jumped when they heard Batman's voice interrupt Wally's story.

"I'll continue after I save the world."

Kidflash grinned arrogantly, speeding off to change. The rest of the team exchanged glances and Aqualad caught Robin's smirk.

"Robin, was that actually Batman?"

"Nope."