Bruce looked at all of his children individually, frowning deeply as they looked back at him. They were all standing up straight with their hands behind their backs, their shoulders squared and their chins jutted forward, giving them a military kind of look, even if none of them wore the same kind of clothing.

Ollie, Clark, Leonidas and Hal were already used to seeing the teens in this stance, but Billy Batson; who was still somewhat new to the family dynamics; was a bit shocked to see the emotionless faces of kids older than him. Sure, as Captain Marvel he had seen some pretty bad stuff... But these were supposed to be his friends.

"I've cared for you ten kids for more than five years now. I have given you everything that I could and all I asked for in return was some peace and understanding." Bruce started, turning around to face their uncles. "I know you kids don't have the most family members out there, but I've tried."

Leonidas sighed as he sat on a stool close to the Bat Computer, which was in the direction the kids were facing, with Bruce's back turned to it. The ex-king of Sparta still looked to be in his early thirties, even though he was nearing his forties.

"You're all growing up, I get it." Bruce turned around once more, face still stoney. "You're going to college," Wally's fingers twitched just slightly, which made Bruce quirk an eyebrow. "Or find your own way into this world. But I can't let you go around without controlling your powers."

This instantly worried all of the teenagers, the ones with powers unsure of what this would mean for them, and the ones without powers worried about what it could mean for their meta siblings.

"Wally," He said, making the teen look straight at him. "You're powers are growing more unstable and I believe it's about time you were trained."

"But dad, I'm already trained-" Wally started to protest, but Bruce cut him off.

"Correctly."

Wally grumbled as he glared at his father, but still stood still, shocking Billy at all of the control he showed. And to think that he had nearly blown up his siblings only an hour ago...

"I have already talked this over with Leonidas and Alfred-"

"Many times, in fact." Leonidas added, frowning deeply at the words he knew were going to come out from Bruce's lips.

How he loathed what was going to happen now.

Bruce glared at him, but quickly went back to his children with a straight face. "And we have decided it is about time you all trained the correct way." He sighed, breathing in deeply as he prepared himself for what he was going to say next. "And not only trained, but let go of your past hatred and grow closer to the people you ran away from."

You could hear a pin drop in the Cave after his words. Slowly his kids reacted at the words he had said, breaking their line and channeling their own unique reactions.

Kaldur glared and walked backwards, and when his back hit the wall that was behind them, he slowly slid down, ending up crouching with his elbows on his knees and his hands in his long white hair. This could only mean... No! It couldn't!

Conner quickly turned to M'gann and hugged her tightly, already feeling the tears flowing from her eyes onto his shirt. Wally, on the other hand, glared and started vibrating, only the calming hand of Leonidas stopping him from doing anything he could have regretted.

Raquel didn't know if this new turn of events would make her leave her only concrete home, but she only took a step backwards, with her mouth hung open and her eyes wide. Zatanna fell to her knees with her hands clasped in front of her, tears silently falling from her face as Dick ran to her.

Jason, Roy, and Artemis were all left to look around at their siblings different reactions, not knowing who they should comfort, or if they should just start fighting Bruce on what was going to happen.

Bruce felt his own tears swell up at the sight of his children so broken, but instead he only channeled his Batman persona and narrowed his eyes, turning his back to them. "And there will be no discussion about this."

He made to leave and was pretty close to doing so, but Ollie's hand on his shoulder stopped him. The blonde was heartbroken at the sight of the children, and he could tell that their father was too. He didn't know what to say, but opted for a simple question to tell Bruce how discontent he was with this. "You see them?"

Bruce glared at his best friend and coldly shrugged his hand off. "Of course I did."

With that he left the Cave and went into the Manor, heart heavy with the decision he had made.

Back in the Cave Billy didn't know if he should comfort any teenager, but Hal, Leonidas, Clark, and Ollie were already hugging someone or comforting the other. Ollie hugged Kaldur tightly while whispering comforting words in the teen's ear, knowing just how broken he was going to be because of this.

Clark was rubbing Conner and M'gann's shoulders, while Leonidas hugged a quivering Wally tightly. Hal had an arm slung over Raquel's shoulders as he softly spoke to her, the girl frozen in her pose after her father left.

So, Billy did the only thing he dared do, and walked towards Robin and Zatanna and hugged them both tightly, no words passing as they just held each other.

"He... He can't do this!" Wally finally yelled after minutes of silence, finding his voice as the tears streaked his cheeks. "He just can't!"

Artemis' felt her own eyes sting with tears at the words of her brother and she opted to turn to Roy, the older teen hugging her tightly as Wally spoke his mind.

"He can't make us go to those jackasses!" He yelled at his siblings, then looked at Leonidas, green eyes shining of so many swirling emotions. "He can't... Can't he?..."

Leonidas sighed as he brought Wally in for another hug, not knowing what to say. He stared wide eyed at Ollie, who only shook his head, both men knowing that this just wouldn't end well.

"Unfortunately, Wally... He can..."

Sorry about not updating in forever, but I was a bit confused at the lack of reviews even though the first chapter had a lot of views. Then, about a week or two ago, I noticed that I had mistakenly rated this M!

Sorry about that, this story is completely T! It may be going dark, but not that dark!

Anyways, please forgive me about the confusion and please review! Also, I will be updating weekly!