A/N: So, yeah, the amount of feedback I've already gotten on this… Just wow, guys. Seriously, I have no idea how to respond to that. Oh, wait, yes I do. By posting this! ;P
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"You know that yelling for Dick isn't going to make him stop messing with you, right?" a new voice piped up, and Wally whirled about only to come face to face with the familiar blonde nine year old.
"Stephanie, what…? Wait, where you earlier? The others were on the couch with Dick, but you weren't there…" Wally said, realizing that for the first time.
"I just got over a cold, so Dick let me sleep in his room," Stephanie explained. "Are you yelling for him because of Dad and Selina? 'Cause if so, we weren't supposed to tell you about that. Dad thought it would be funny to see how Uncle Clark and the others reacted."
"And?" Roy asked. He might have only met Stephanie once or twice, but he knew enough on general Bat-behavior to tell when information was being withheld.
"…Dad didn't tell us until two days before the wedding," Stephanie relented. "He wanted to keep it quiet so that by the time the press found out, it would seem like him and Selina were on their honeymoon for the summer with us staying in England with Alfie. That way they couldn't bug him about it until September, and I think he's hoping that they'll have forgotten about it by then. Now did you say pancakes?"
Roy groaned slightly as he remembered why he didn't know Steph as well as he knew the others; she had a tendency to ramble. Still, he had made a promise… "Yeah. Come on."
"Waffles are better(1)," was her response, but she followed the archer to the kitchen anyway. She then squealed in happiness and nearly tackled Robin. "Dick! You made me waffles! Oh thank you thank you thank you!"
Wally just blinked before remembering why Roy had come to get him. "Hey! Wait for me!"
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M'gann was used to sometimes strange things happening at Mount Justice. However, walking into the kitchen to find five children, one of whom couldn't have been more than four years old, Wally, Red Arrow, and Robin all rather sticky due to what appeared to be the remains of three syrup bottles, she gave up on any fragile hope for sanity that morning.
"Oh, hey Megan!" Robin said, and she couldn't help but notice that without his mask, his eyes were a very pretty shade of blue. Wait…
"You aren't wearing a mask," she couldn't help but point out. "Or sunglasses."
"Bats caved in," he replied, flashing her a grin. The next second, Wally screamed.
"OW! Dude, the demon just stabbed me with a fork! Again!" Wally shouted, clutching his now slightly bleeding hand while the youngest of the kids giggled.
"Damian, no stabbing," Dick said, wrestling the fork from his grip. "Wally, Damian's not a demon."
"Yeah, he's Mini-Bat!" the blonde piped up, grinning.
"…you gave him a hero name?" Roy asked, wondering why he had agreed to this. And it hadn't even been 24 hours yet!
"It's just a codename that we use when talking about him on patrols so that on the off-chance someone's listening in, they wouldn't understand," Dick said patiently, although he was grateful that Tim and Cass seemed fairly content to just eat their breakfast without fuss. "It's not like he has a costume."
Everyone except for Jason fell silent. The ten year old just snorted.
"…do not tell me that you guys made Damian a costume."
"We didn't!" Stephanie started, making Dick sigh with relief. He had too high of hopes, though, because Stephanie wasn't finished. "Alfred did. Do you wanna see him in it? He looks so cute!"
With a groan, Dick let his head fall on the table. "What was I thinking?" he muttered to himself.
"OW! BAD BAT DEMON!"
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Over an hour later, everyone was finally clean of any syrup, bellies were full for the time being, and the kitchen had been tidied back up.
Of course, as soon as Dick made a move to go and take a nap after getting the other Bats to settle down and watch movies with M'gann and a hesitant Wally who refused to sit near Damian, Artemis reappeared.
Well, at least she's not glaring so much, Dick thought. "Hey Artemis. Look, I'm sorry about the school thing, but while I couldn't tell you at the time, I knew that sooner or later…"
"Robin. Dick. It's fine," Artemis interrupted. "I was just cranky earlier, and I had already been off-balance because of your 'siblings'."
"…really?"
"Yeah. But speaking of siblings, they're the other wards of Wayne's, aren't they?" Artemis asked.
"Well… For the most part. Damian really is Bruce's son, though," Dick said. "And before you ask, yes, Bruce Wayne is Batman."
"…wait, you're seriously telling me that the kid who stabbed Baywatch twice and then tried to strangle Harper with a towel is Batman's biological son?" Artemis asked in disbelief. "How does that work out?"
"Damian was raised for a year by his mother and grandfather before he was dropped on the steps of Wayne Manor," Dick explained, flopping down in one of the kitchen chairs, Artemis following suit. "Besides, he is a mini-Bruce… He's just 100% Bat."
"No offense, but he's a bit terrifying," Artemis said. "I mean, he's, what, two, three years old?"
"Three."
"Yeah. What kind of three year old can do the things he does?"
"Batman's kid."
"…touché."
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Conner, who's sleeping habits involved staying up until midnight and getting up at ten, woke up to a rather loud 'conversation' from the living room. Once he got the doorway, though, he paused in confusion.
Wally, Roy, and Robin were there, the latter without anything to hide his identity, but there were also five other younger kids and a small, all black except for a little bit of white by her nose, on her chest, and white 'socks' on her front paws, cat. The cat was seated next to the smallest of the kids in one of the chairs, Roy and Wally were by the kitchen, the oldest of the kids was in a feral crouch next to Wolf, and the other three were tickling Rob.
Connor quickly decided that this had to the strangest day so far at Mount Justice, and it had only just begun.
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E/N: So, Megan and Connor have (sort of) met the other Bats, and Stephanie was added in. Initially, I wasn't going to include her, but then I looked into her character a little more and couldn't resist. (And yes, Roy and Wally did just forget about her due to the craziness of the invading Bats.) And Damian managed to make Wally like him even less (then again, it's Damian, so he doesn't care).
(1)Fans of Stephanie Brown/Spoiler were encouraged to send in letters and waffles as a show of support for the character to get DC to add her back into the comics.