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Chapter 2: Finding Allies

Iris Allen walked into the den at the sound of her daughter crying. Finding that the child had thrown her doll out of her play pen the woman picked her up with a tired smile. Before she could put her back down the doorbell rang and she went to answer it with the child in hand.

Her eyes widen at the sight of Wally and a group of teens behind him.

"Wally what are you doing here? Your Uncle told you that you can't be here until you get clean," She said eyeing the other teens.

"I wouldn't be here if I wasn't abducted by aliens," he said.

"Oh God, your high right now aren't you," his aunt exclaimed holding her daughter closer.

"What…no I'm talking about Flashes kind of aliens," he said gesturing to M'gann who turned herself green with a smile, spooking Iris but making the little girl clap her hands happily.

"Oh…well come in before someone sees you," the woman said. They all came in and after Iris put her daughter to sleep in her room she filed the group into the kitchen. She then went to the phone and called her husband to come home as soon as he can to deal with an emergency with his "other" job. She then grabbed a sheet of cookies she was making from the over and placed it on a plate.

"We thank you for your hospitality and understanding," Aqualad said as Iris placed the dish of cookies in the center of the table.

Artemis frowned noticing that Wally wasn't even looking at the cookies. It really didn't hit her until now that he truly didn't have his powers.

"It's the least I can do," Iris said. She looked at Wally and walked over to him. She lifted her nephews face by his chin.

"Hey," he exclaimed as she touched his bruised cheek.

"He hit you again…I wish you would let us help you Wally."

"I asked for help and Barry shot me down." Wally said swatting his aunt's hand away.

"Hello Megan…this must be what Time Catcher changed in history," M'gann said slapping her forehead lightly.

"What are you talking about," Wally said arching an eyebrow.

Aqualad looked over to the teen. "We will explain but after the Flash has arrived."

"Arrive for what?" the group heard behind them and turned to see the Flash in his uniform. "And may I ask who you guys are," he asked crossing his arms across his chest. The group shot up in surprise and Aqualad gave the Flash a small nod.

"My apologies, I am Aqualad and this is Miss Martian, Superboy, and Artemis. This may be hard to explain, but we are from what seems to be a different dimension…We are in need of assistance and Wally showed us…"

"Wally?" Flash said interrupting. The red head flinched slightly. "You told them my identity? See this is exactly why I can't trust you," he said loudly pointing his finger at his nephew.

"Barry quiet down," Iris said fearing her daughter to wake up. "He was just trying to help…"

"Help? For all I know you guys are here to hurt my family."

"Oh no we aren't…" M'gann tried to intervene but was cut off by Wally.

"They aren't here to hurt us, they just rescued me," Wally shouted back.

"Look I'm sorry for interrupting but we just need your help figuring out what's going on. The sooner you do that the sooner we're gone," Artemis said coming between the two relatives. Barry and Wally stared at each other for a moment but soon relaxed.

"Fine, tell me what's going on and if I decided that you're telling the truth I will help you…so make it believable.

The group moved into the living room and made themselves comfortable with Wally and Barry taking seats as far away as possible. Artemis plopped herself down next to the red head and he looked at her suspiciously.

"What…" She said to him with a glare. "Never had a girl sit next to you before Baywatch."

"Not one with a Green Arrow fetish…and Baywatch? What is with these weird names?"

Artemis looked away as she kept forgetting this wasn't her Wally.

"You have to understand to us you are still the Wally that we all know…you are the protégé of the Flash also known as Kid Flash. Those nicknames…were names Artemis used to joke with you." Aqualad explained.

"Kid Flash?" Wally asked. "That was the name I came up with when…when I was younger," he said finishing the last part quietly and with his head down.

"I would have never let my nephew become my partner. It would be way too dangerous," Barry said.

"But in our time you did," M'gann stated. "And when my Uncle J'onn saw that it was working with you, Green Arrow, Aquaman and Batman he let me come to Earth with him," she finished happily.

"See now I know you're lying. The Bats would never take on a kid," Flash stated.

"Wait a second…Robin. That's what this is all about," Artemis spit out.

"Who?" Iris asked.

"Of course, hello M'gann," the Martian agreed with the archer.

"So we have to find Robin to fix all of this?" Superboy asked.

"Wait what are you guys talking about?" Flash asked.

"This all started when we were fighting against Time Catcher," Artemis stated. "He was going after Rob. If there is no Robin then there are no sidekicks."

Aqualad rubbed his chin in thought. "It does make sense. Because Batman took him in that gave Green Arrow the idea to take in Speedy and allowed my King to think it was alright for me to come to the surface world."

"And with the three of you as sidekicks that let Wally try harder to become Kid Flash and have Flash let him join," M'gann finish.

"Are you kidding me," Wally said standing up. "I become Kid Flash because another kid just happened to be a sidekick first!"

"It seems the most plausible," Aqualad said.

"And what about you three," Iris asked looking at Superboy, M'gann and Artemis.

"They're kind of a long story," Artemis answered for all of them.

"Ok so let's say you're telling the truth. What do you want me to do about it?" Flash asked.

"We need help getting back to our dimension," Aqualad said.

"I wouldn't even know where to begin."

"Well you can always ask for help from…" Iris began.

"No, no way am I asking for help from that arrogant bat. I'll get Superman or someone else."

"Superman would just say to go to Batman. He's the only one with the resources," Superboy said flatly.

Flash stared at all of them and sighed deeply. "Fine I'll take you to see the Batman. But if you think he's going to believe you as easily as I do then you're dead wrong."

"We know," all four heroes said simultaneously.

"What about me," Wally asked.

"You'll stay here," Flash said as everyone got up. Wally growled and looked away.

"Wait he should come with us," Artemis started and Wally looked up at her in surprise.

"In your world he might be my partner but he isn't in this one," Flash stated.

"Well you can't just send him back to that monster back at home and you don't want him in the house if he still doing drugs. Where do you want him to go…besides it's not like we are going to do anything dangerous and maybe this will get you to change your mind about letting him join," Artemis said spitting the last part out quickly before the speedster could say no.

Iris got up and put her arm on her husband's shoulder. "Maybe you can think of this as take your kid to work day. It would be good for him," she smiled.

"Well with you guys all ganging up on me…" he started.

"YES!" Wally shouted into the air and hugged Artemis tightly making her gasp at the close contact. He jumped across the room and grabbed his aunt into a hug. He looked to his uncle and he looked away. "Thanks," he said quietly and ran out the door.

Artemis felt herself blush from the hug and tried to keep the smile from sneaking upon her lips. She followed the rest of the group and made it out just as Wally slammed into the invisible ship forgetting it was parked on their lawn and fell onto his back.

"Even without your speed you still manage to always mange to fall on your butt," she groaned walking over and helping him up.

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"So how do we get Batman's attention," M'gann asked as she flew her Bio-ship over Gotham.

"Simple enough," the Flash said. "Just de-cloak your ship and let the fun begin." M'gann made the ship visible to the world and slowly flew over the skyscrapers passing the tallest one of Wayne Tower.

"What about your com links?" Superboy asked.

"We use to have them but the Justice League kind of went under and Batman doesn't usually answer our calls…or even leave the city for that matter."

"What happened to the league?" Artemis asked.

"Just wasn't really working out. Just to name a few problems…Batman was always arguing with Superman, Aquaman didn't agree with the way the surface world was acting and J'onn became home sick and left for Mars."

"So what about in your…"dimension," Wally asked eagerly making up quotations marks with his hands.

"You mean the League?" Artemis started. "It's still around and everyone helps out. We're still too new to really know too much."

"So even when I'm on the inside I'm still on the outside," Wally pouted sliding lower into the chair. Before Artemis could say anything a black flash appeared on the side of the ship.

"There she is," Flash said indicating to the Batjet. Looking into the black airship the group could see the stoic face of the Batman. Flash came up next to Aqualad and waved hello briskly. Batman shook his head and made a movement with his hand for them to follow him.

M'gann was lead to a waterfall just outside of Gotham and was surprised to see the water part for the ships to enter.

"I can't believe I actually get to see the Batcave," Wally said excitedly.

"Don't get too excited. He is has a special section for guests. No one gets to see the actual Batcave; you'll get to see nothing but a computer and a few chairs." Flash laughed causing not just Wally but the whole group to frown. M'gann landed softly next to Batman's ship and they emptied out of the craft where Batman waited patiently with his hand on his utility belt.

"What do you want Flash and who are your…guests," he stated eyeing the teens with his famous bat glare.

"We've got a little bit of a problem," Flash said with a smile. Batman arched his eyebrow and moved further into the cave having the rest follow.

"Speak," he finally said as they all took a seat around a table in a large cave like room. Aqualad explained to him how they are from a different dimension and that they needed help to right everything. Batman listened carefully and when Aqualad finished Batman turned to the computer and pressed a few buttons. A picture of Aqualad appeared but his hair was slightly longer and the black tattoos that ran along his shoulders and arms were not there. He then pulled up another picture of Artemis in the form of a mug shot. Under both pictures were the words missing. The team looked at the picture with wide eyes.

"What…where…how…" Artemis sputtered in astonishment.

"I received these pictures yesterday. One of Aquaman's guards that goes by the name of Kaldur'ahm went missing during patrol and in Gotham's juvie facility a prisoner by the name of Artemis Crock went missing in her room with no explainable exit. If you were from a different dimension then where is this dimensions Kaldur'ahm and Artemis?" Batman said demanding an explanation.

"I don't understand," M'gann said. "So we aren't from a separate dimension?"

"Maybe the us in this dimension is now in our dimension?" Superboy asked.

"Or maybe you are just a bunch of delinquents trying to pull one over on us," Batman said his hand making its way to his Utility belt. Artemis made for her arrows and Superboy tensed up ready to strike.

"Maybe…" Wally started quietly and everyone looked to him.

"Maybe what," Batman said with a glare.

"Well…could it be possible that they are from the same dimension but from an altered timeline. Like none of this should exist and was only created out of your battle."

"That could make sense," Flash said. "I mean you said the guy you fought called himself Time Catcher so it would make sense that he bends time to his will."

"That can be true but then why can you all remember?" Batman asked.

"When we fought him we broke his machine. We were in the shield and that must have protected us from the change like it would for him," M'gann said.

"So what, we need to find the machine that started this all or should we find Robin," Superboy asked.

"We wouldn't even know how to find Robin. We have no idea who he is." Artemis said crossing her arms over her chest in frustration.

"Well we know he has black hair and…he's 13 and…he likes to make up words?" M'gann said making the team realize that this was going to be harder than they thought.

"Arrgg this is your entire fault." Artemis exclaimed looking at Batman. "If you had at least let us have known his name then then we would be able to find him."

"Except it isn't my fault because I don't have a sidekick. Never had and never will," Batman said looking back to the computer. He began to type something into the machine and pictures of teenage boy with black hair popped up.

"So what we are going to have to pick him out of a picture," Superboy said.

"That can take forever," Wally said. "And that's even if your friends up there."

"What do you mean?" M'gann asked.

"Well maybe this bad guy made it so he never existed, or that he was born a girl or…"

The room lit up red and the word 'Emergency' lit up on the computer. Batman clicked a button on the keyboard and a video of the news popped up. A woman on a street with fire and smoke swirling behind her appeared.

"We are here in downtown Gotham where a man is firing a weapon at the citizen's," she said nervously. The group watched as the camera focused on a man walking through the smoke in a blue tuxedo.

"That's him," Artemis and M'gann exclaimed at the same time.

"But what's he is doing?" Flash asked.

"He's destroying my city that's what he's doing," Batman said angrily and made his way over to his jet. The group got up and he looked back at them. "Stay here."

"Are you kidding me?" Superboy said.

"We should come with you. If we defeat him we might be able to go home," Aqualad stated. Batman thought for a moment and continued to walk to his jet. "I'll take that as a yes," he said.

"I never thought I would say this but I miss the old Batman," Artemis said. Wally followed behind the group and Flash turned to him.

"Oh no this time you're staying back."

"But…" Wally started.

"This time you will get in the way so stay put," he said and followed the group. Artemis turned her head to Wally as the door closed catching the sight to a defeated red head.

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People ran passed the ship as M'gann landed it just outside the fire and chaos. Behind them batman landed his own jet and leaped out using his grappling hook to pull him from the ship and onto the roof.

"Where is he," Artemis cried out.

"You would think it would be easier to find a guy in a blue tuxedo and top hat," Superboy exclaimed.

A line of blue light streaked just past Artemis shredding a piece of her hair that was flying in the wind. Artemis turned to the light with her bow and arrow at the ready.

"So you did survive the time change. I was hoping that you would all wake up forgetting what had happened," the man said.

"What do you want Time Catcher. Why do all of this?" Aqualad asked.

"I was told to, and if you hadn't intervene I would have let you all lived including the boy but now you must all go," he said pointing his cane with the large sapphire at the group. The gem lit up and fired another blue light.

Everyone dodged the light letting it hit the building behind them. Pedestrians who took shelter in the apartment ran but the building was falling fast. M'gann and Flash ran and flew over to it quickly. M'gann held her arms up and tried to hold the big pieces of the building from falling to the ground but was only strong enough to slow it down.

Flash ran back and forth grapping people and moving them to safety and coming back for more. The rest of the group ran to help as Artemis fired volleys of arrows at the tuxedoed man. Time Catcher ran back into the smoke with a smile and Batman who was watching from the roof followed him in silence.

"Now where did you go you brat," the man sneered. He walked over to a restaurant which had a bunch of outside tables to eat at. Some of them were turned over and thrown in different directions, some of which were on fire. "I know I saw you run over here," the tuxedoed man smiled as he caught a shadow of someone behind a fallen table.

On the other side was a young black haired teenager who hid with his head down between his knees and chest that was tucked together. Blood seeped from a wound on his shoulder and it dripped down his blue hooded sweat shirt.

He jumped as the table was ripped from the behind him and he looked up at Time Catcher with wide blue eyes revealing himself to be Dick Grayson.

"Found you," Time Catcher said pointing his cane to the boy.

"What do you want from me," the teen yelled backing away slowly using his one good arm to pull himself back against the wall of the restaurant.

"Unfortunately for you…to kill you. You can blame the Junior Justice league for that one," he said as the Sapphire lit up.

Dick looked everywhere for an escape but when he realized there was none he scrunched his eyes closed and waited for it to end. Before the sapphire was fully charged through a batarang flew through the air knocking the cane sideways and it went off hitting a car parked on the street. The man looked up with a sneer.

"Batman," he yelled as the masked hero jumped in front of Dick and glared at Time Catcher. "Move out of the way," Time Catcher shouted pulling his cane apart for his sword.

"I can't do that," the man said.

"Believe me it's better for both of us if he's gone. The little kiddies must have told you who I am already. Because they interfered this child must die or things will begin to change. Your time line will cease to exist and the man you are now will disappear with it," he said. Behind him Dick's eyes widen clearly confused as to what's going on. Batman's glare deepened.

"No," he said.

"Fine...another time then." The man said sliding the sword back into its place and pulling out a small silver ball. Batman pulled his cap up around him and pulled out another batarang but before he could do anything Time Catcher threw it to the ground and was hidden in smoke. When it cleared he was gone. Looking around Batman could not find him and turned his attention to the boy.

He was surprised to find the boy was no longer there but was left with nothing but a small smear of blood.

Dick Grayson ran as soon as the two men were too preoccupied with each other to notice him gone. He held his arm against his chest and looked behind him to make sure he wasn't being followed. He turned back quickly only to bang into the back of someone and fell to the ground.

"Oh sorry," he said and looked up. His eyes widen as he came face to face with a green girl. He shouted and scurried to his feet and took off in the other direction. He didn't get far as a bigger guy with black tattoos and gills stopped him.

"You need help," Aqualad said holding his arm out for the boy to take.

"Stay away," Dick shouted.

"Dick? Dick Grayson," the teen heard and turned around to see a girl dressed in green and covered in debris. She walked over to him with the green alien girl behind her.

"How…how do you know my name?" he asked timidly.

"We go to school to…" she said cutting herself short. She has to remember that here she didn't go to Gotham Academy.

"You go to Gotham North?" he asked.

"Gotham North?" she said in confusion. "No I…"

She was cut off as Superboy, Flash and Batman joined the little circle with Dick in the middle.

"This is the boy that Time Catcher was after," Batman stated. With surprise written on the groups face they looked at Dick like they've seen a ghost.

"You…" Artemis stated. "You're Robin." It suddenly all made sense, the reason why he took the picture that day, and why he was always so nice to her. That could also explain how she got into the school in the first place with the Bruce Wayne scholarship. Dick Grayson equals Bruce Wayne which means Robin equals Batman. She turned to Batman.

"You're Bruce Wayne?" the archer said in astonishment. The Flash cringed and backed up knowing that it was about to get ugly. Before Batman could react Dick spoke.

"Who's Robin?" he asked his voice suddenly becoming faint. He took a step back but crumpled to the ground. Superboy reached out and grabbed him bringing the two of them to the ground. Batman bent down next to him and pulled out a knife. He ripped Dicks sleeve revealing a deep gash on his arm.

"Robin…he's hurt" M'gann said worriedly. Superboy growled protectively and stood up with the boy in his arms. They looked at Batman in anticipation.

"We can treat him back at the cave but as soon as he's better he's gone," Batman stated and walked past Artemis glaring at her.

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Back at the cave Wally sat in his seat playing with a yo-yo that he had kept in his pocket. When he heard the Batjet landing he ran out of the room and watched as Superboy walk out with the younger teen in his arms.

"So is this that Robin kid you were talking about?" he asked as they passed him in silence. He followed them to the small med bay and Batman went to a drawer and pulled out gauze and stitching material. Wally looked at the boy's face in suspicion after he was placed on the metal table. "He doesn't look like much to me."

"You wouldn't be saying that if you knew how many times he kicked your ass in training," Artemis said.

"I will stitch up his wound and meet you all back in the other room. Wally and Flash left silently but the rest of the group hesitated. The teen might not be there Robin but he was still Robin and there natural instincts of protecting their youngest member were still there.

They slowly filed out with Aqualad being the last turning one last time. Batman gave him a small nod and Aqualad nodded back. Once gone Batman pressed a button and a few minutes later the doors opened and Alfred walked in.

"Yes Master Bruce?" Alfred asked.

"Alfred I need your assistance," Batman said and gave the butler the gauze.

Walking over to the boy he and Alfred carefully cut the sweatshirt off Dick until he was left with just hid black t-shirt under it. As Alfred stuck Dick with a shot to fight infection and taped the last bit of gauze around Dicks arm Batman brushed back a small bit of hair. The teen was young and scrawny. Why would this group of teenagers think that he would take on such a small boy as a partner and four years ago which meant he was nine then.

"I will watch him Master Bruce if you wish to meet with the rest of your team," Alfred said cleaning up the blood. Batman nodded and walked out of the med bay. When he walked into the room where the rest of the group was he saw that they had already cleaned themselves off and was sitting around the table drinking water.

Without a word he walked over to the computer and typed in Dick Grayson and a newspaper clipping popped up from four years ago with a picture of six trapeze artists waving up on a trapeze set. Batman began to read it out loud.

"Yesterday night cousins Richard and Rick Grayson the children of the acrobatic circus family "The Flying Grayson's" of Haly's Circus became the two surviving members of a tragic trapeze accident. While Richard age eight was not harmed Rick age twenty one was sent to Gotham North Hospital where he is currently laying in a coma. The accident seemed to be caused by the loosening of a bolt on the ropes that came undone and the five trapeze that always finish the show without a net fell, killing John and Mary Grayson, parents of Richard and Joe and Sarah, parents of Rick…does that seem about right to you?" Batman asked turning to the group.

"Oh yeah I heard about that," Wally said taking a sip of his water. "I just read last week that Rick Grayson just died. It was a big thing because the hospital had to stop life support since there was no more money to cover the help."

"That's terrible," M'gann said and Superboy took her hand to comfort the alien girl.

"The accident is the same in our time line," Artemis said. "Except Batman found that the rope was tampered with and caught the bad guy with his new sidekick Robin. Just so happen that Dick Grayson was taken in by Gotham's billionaire play-boy philanthropist Bruce Wayne around the same time."

Wally choked on his water and stared at the Batman putting two and two together.

"Your freak' in Bruce mmhmm…" he started before Flash covered his nephew's mouth and smiled sheepishly at Batman.

"Regardless of who you and Robin truly are Time Catcher is after him and we need to keep him safe while trying to find a way to reset the time line," Aqualad stated.

"And what if I don't think the time line should be changed," Batman said and everyone looked at him in confusion. "Time Catcher brought up a point to me that if we change everything that we cease to exist."

"But you won't cease to exist," M'gann stated. "You'll be back to being happier and back with your family."

"I won't be back with my family," Batman said glaring daggers at the group. "And I looked at that child in there. He could never be my protégé."

"But Batman…Aqualad started but was cut off as Artemis stood up slamming her fists on the table in front of her.

"Then you would be up for a little wager then," she smiled. The group looked at her with confusion. "If we prove to you that Dick Grayson would make a good sidekick then you have to help us set everything back to normal. If not then…we'll fill out the lives of our counterparts. I'll send myself to jail, Aqualad will go back to the sea, M'gann to Mars, and you can do whatever you want with Mr. hot and brooding."

"Hey," Superboy interjected.

"Do we have ourselves a deal?"

Everyone looked to Batman including Flash who waited with anticipation.

"Fine, I'll test the boy tomorrow and see if I deem him worthy to change time for him."

M'gann clapped happily and Aqualad smiled lightly giving Artemis a sharp nod. The computer chirped behind Batman and he pressed a button.

"Batman I am sorry to disturb you but we have a problem," Alfred's voice said over the speaker. "I turned around just for a moment and it seems that the boy has disappeared."

Artemis smiled like a Cheshire cat.

"Well," she said "That's point one for us."

So they've got Robin back…sort of. Now they just have to prove that he's up to the task to Batman. When they find him that is.

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