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Chapter3

Tuesday

After a quick shower M'gann found herself in the kitchen working on more cookies. This time they were going to be chocolate chips – she had tried her hand at oatmeal raisin just the other day and nearly burned down the kitchen. Next time she would remember to go to the store and pick up raisins instead of trying to make them straight from grapes and Zatanna's powers. Humming to herself M'gann was so engrossed in her ingredient finding that she didn't notice someone else entering the kitchen. The swish of air that greeted the Martian, however, was enough for her to know that it was a speedster.

"Hey M'gann how's it cooking?"

Chuckling at his words she replied with a cheerful "hello" to the older male. Turning fully to face the older hero, M'gann graced the grinning man with a smile of her own. It was funny to her how easy going both speedsters were, their smiles able to brighten an already sun lit room.

Walking over to the junior hero, who had turned back to her cooking, Flash leaned against the table absently watching her.

"Have you seen Kid?"

Nodding her head M'gann stopped stirring the batter to give a verbal answer. "He was still in the training room with Robin and Roy. They might still be there."

"Thank you Miss M. Love the Oatmeal raisin cookies by the way." Sending her a wink and a half eaten cookie salute Flash lit out of the room making sure not to send everything in the room onto the floor. Smiling and shaking her head at the antics of the older hero she was about to get back to work when the Man of Steel entered.

What is he doing here?

"Hello Miss Martian how are you?"

"Oh, hi Superman," M'gann said as cheerfully as she could muster when talking to the older hero. You could say that she was a tad bit biased against him due to his treatment of Connor. Then again she had noticed that when it came to all of her teammates that they were a bit cold with the older male, even Zatanna who had just joined the team.

After the magician had learned of the way the Man of Steel treated her friend and teammate she had to be talked down repeatedly to not turn him into a pig. The Martian could agree with her new earth sister, the guy was being pigheaded to the fullest.

"Heard about your last mission. Good job."

Shouldn't you be saying that to Connor? M'gann thought keeping her face as neutral as possible. Besides if he wanted to talk he could start by telling them what he and the other senior members were doing at the cave. There hadn't been a mission briefing and Roy being there seemed a bit suspicious. She was sure she wasn't the only one to notice it either.

"Thank you Superman."

"Are you always baking?"

"For the most part. I'm trying to get down a recipe that everyone enjoys. So far it seems only Wally and Connor like them."

At the mention of his name Connor appeared at the entrance of the kitchen, Wolf at his side. About to open his mouth and say something he stopped when he spotted the other occupant in the room who wasn't M'gann. What's he doing here? Clark caught Connors look and turned away from the young teen not knowing exactly what to say.

Irritation could be felt rolling off Connor in waves, so much so that Wolf picked it up, growling slightly at the Man of Steel. Shooting him a cool look Connor walked over to M'gann draping an arm over her shoulder to see what it was she was baking this time. After their first mishap he had taken to helping her more and more, just as long as she wasn't using her powers. Everything turned out better that way…and less messy.

"Superman was just congratulating us on our last mission," M'gann told him while cracking the last egg into the bowl.

"Ah yeah," Superman sheepishly said, rubbing the back of his head. It was always so hard to talk to his clone while in a room with others, or any room really. He didn't know how to act around kids as it were and to have one dumped on him wasn't helping. It wasn't the kid's fault, he knew that, especially after getting drilled by Batman…then Flash, Green Arrow, Black Canary and even Hawk Girl. Clark was sure had Dr. Fate not taken over Zatara he'd have heard it from him as well.

Connor watched Superman as if waiting for him to say something else. Why exactly was it so hard for the older male to just say something? Connor hadn't asked to be cloned by the male, but he was here now and wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. Coward.

He was sure that if he was actually able to shoot lasers out of his eyes, without the patches obtained from Luther, he and M'Gann would be making a cake instead of cookies right now. Seriously who did the guy think he was? It would be a cold day in hell, (he'd learned that expression from Robin whilst the young bird was playing video games with Wally) before he went asking the Man of Steel for help.

If Superman wanted to step up and be a man then maybe, just maybe he'd listen, but Black Canary was doing a great job helping him with the basics of fighting and keeping his anger under control. Batman as rigid as he seemed to be had their best interest at heart and no matter what the Flash and Green Arrow where always good to give praise and constructive criticism after every mission. He didn't need Superman.

I'm not even fully cloned from him anyway. Connor was snapped out of his thoughts when someone in the room coughed to clear their throat. It was a nervous habit that he learned some people did when they were uncomfortable with things. Turning back to Superman, the Boy of Steel regarded him with a stone face waiting as patiently as he could for the male to get whatever it was off of his chest.

"Good job…Connor."

Blinking slowly at the older male Connor felt nothing but anger begin to boil at the surface of his emotions. "Whatever," he bit out before turning back to M'gann. The Martian feeling his distress intertwined the hand holding the bowl with his.

/Why don't you hold the bowl still for me while I stir?/

/Sounds like a plan./ Connor answered back with a slight smile to match his girlfriend's.

"I'll be taking my leave, but will be back within a day or so to catch up on details of your missions. Good day."

"Bye."

"See you later," M'gann called after the man of steel just a bit more meaningful than her boyfriend. She still, however, didn't give the older man the time of day to turn to him and speak. She would have heard it from her Uncle if he had of been in the room, but he wasn't. Respecting your elders was high on the list of things to live by on her planet, no matter Green or White Martian.

Looking down at Wolf who had settled down next to her feet she stopped her administrations and pet the meta-wolf on his head. "Good boy."

"Let's go." Batman nodded his head at his charge before turning sharply, his cape billowing behind him. How the man managed to get his cape to act as if there was a fan always on stand-by Robin would never know. He had run the thought by KF at one point, the older teen commenting that maybe he had an invisible fan built into the back of his suit. It was highly unlikely…plausible…but not likely.

Walking to catch up to his mentor, Robin stopped suddenly when a voice rang out in the room.

"Wait a second!" Wally zipped up next to Robin beaming one of his 10,000killawatt you can't tell me no smiles. Bouncing on his heals Robin was tempted to ask the speedster exactly what was going on, but got cut off by his mentor.

Immune to the Bat glare, Batman knew even using it on the young male would be a waste. Besides, if he were anything like his uncle he was sure the male got some twisted fun out of it. It was no surprise to him hearing from Barry that it was his, quote unquote, "job to make the brooding bat's frown lines go away." Bats internally glowered at the memory. Bat's don't have frown lines…

"What."

"Flash said I could stay over for the night." Wally's smile, if possible had gotten all the more wide on seeing Batman's face. It was all he could do not to laugh when the left side of Batman's cowl twitched. Yep, next to Robin, only Speedsters could get the emotionless Dark Knight to show his human side under the cowl. You couldn't even really blame them, annoying the Bats was always just so fun. That and he needed to lighten up every once and a while. Wally didn't know how Rob did it.

Knowing that he couldn't fight against the kid, least get attacked by Robin and his puppy eyes of doom, there was only one thing he could do.

"Home work."

That was all Wally needed to know that Bruce-er, Batman had agreed to him staying over…On a school night! Total and epic win! "YES!"

"You will be leaving for school on time." Way to stop a guy's internal victory dance.

Pouting, Wally crossed his arms over his chest. "That happened only once!"

"Too many. I will not have the Flash terrorizing my city (Or waking me from my sleep) just because you didn't get to first period on time."

"Yes sir," Wally saluted smiling even wider when Batman shook his head and walked away.

Robin was sure Bruce was calculating how much food he had in the manor and whether he'd have to have Alfred run to the store and buy more…The last time he ordered pizza, he and Wally had stayed up till 3 in the morning. Hence the speedster missing his first period class that day. The look on Bruce's face when Barry had showed up unannounced (he had sped past all the security), demanding to know what happened to his nephew was priceless. He wasn't going to let the brooding male know he still had the whole incident on camera. He'd use it for a rainy day.

"So, what shenanigans are we going to get into today?"

"I was thinking figuring out what Roy was here for seeing as we were interrupted." Robin gave a pointed look to the Dark Knight's back before going back to talking with Wally. "He should be going on patrol tonight leaving us to "watch" Ace."

"Well then what are we waiting for?"

Wally enthusiastically signed Secret Mission before halfway skipping to the zeta entrance. Robin shook his head at his supposedly older friend before running to catch up to the hyperactive teen.

Secret Mission indeed.

"I can't believe he did that!" Robin yelled throwing down his gauntlet with a huff onto his bed nearly hitting the red-head who was positioned there.

"Dude!"

Throwing his hands up into the air Robin huffed again before dropping them to his sides. "He blocked my access to the cave tapes from here."

"Tough…Well you did sort of, kind of, if only just a little, eavesdrop on a conversation between the League just two weeks ago."

"Hey, it's not my fault they make things easy to hack into."

"Yeah, it's either that or you're a mini terrorist in disguise."

"Shut it Raggedy Ann."

"Wendy," Wally corrected with a smirk.

Ignoring his idiot of an older friend Robin plopped down onto the bed running his hands over his eyes, stripping off his domino mask in the process. Now how were they supposed to find out what little secret Roy was hiding from them? Sure that he knew more than what he was letting on Dick was aware that the older male wouldn't tell them what was going on unless he absolutely had to.

Interrupted by an annoying feeling bumping his leg he was greeted by huge chocolate round eyes peering up at him from the side of the bed. Ace had somehow, in his little internal rant, jumped onto the bed and retrieved the gauntlet thinking it was a game of fetch. The six month old Doberman wagged its stubby tail before dropping the toy down onto the floor at Dick's knee.

"Good job boy," Dick said giving ace a pat. He could say he never liked Ace chewing on his tech, who would, but the puppy was just that, a puppy. "Go find toy Flash."

"Excuse me?" Wally asked as Ace ran off out of the room to some where only he knew.

"Just wait."

It didn't take long (which in Wally's book still took forever) for the four legged bat to get back into the room. Wally didn't know whether to be flattered or somewhat disgruntled that the dog-bat had a plush Flash in his mouth, one of the arms, he could swear had cotton hanging out of it.

"You and Bruce are sick."

At his friend's expense Robin began to cackle. Taking the toy from Ace he threw it watching the puppy chase after it and bring it back.

"Does the Flash know you and Batman are plotting his demise? Death by canine."

"Oh come off it KF. That's his favorite toy."

"I'm not sure I should be happy that he loves chewing on a plush version of my uncle or scared that he would do the same thing to the real one."

Taking the toy again and throwing it at KF he laughed harder when Ace went after KF instead, latching onto the front of his jacket. "Huh, you want a piece of me fur ball, huh?" Wally asked playing tug of war with his jacket.

"So now what do we-gah! Hey!" Wally looked down at the puppy who now had his mouth wrapped around his pointer and middle finger. "Not a chew toy." Taking up the Flash toy he threw it, thanking no one in particular when Ace ran off after it.

"You should see what he did to the Superman toy." The troll like grin on his best friends face made Wally feel like he shouldn't even ask.

Flopping back onto the bed Dick sighed once again. They had already played CoD for two hours, homework was done, and they had already eaten…Well he had already eaten. Wally could eat seven pizzas, a whole tray of lasagna and still be ready to eat twelve cheeseburgers in the next two hours.

"Dude you have like a huge mansion practically to yourself. I'm sure you haven't seen all of it."

"I've seen pretty much all of it."

"Pretty much?"

"Well besides a few rooms up top…Dude no-"

"Come ooooon! It'll be fun."

"You know I said that when I stumbled onto the bat cave. I would rather be able to see my next birthday."

"He doesn't have to…a…he would wouldn't he?"

"Yep."

Plopping back down on the bed mimicking Robin the ginger stared up at the ceiling in thought. An idea struck him in less than 30 seconds, thank you super speed thinking. It paid off sometimes. "I got it!" Turning to Dick he began to sign to him the plan he had just thought up. Wally had taught Dick how to sign after they had become close friends, it had been helpful when they started going on missions together and when plotting against Roy.

Wally still had yet to tell Rob that he had learned sign language from one of the Rogues, Pied Piper. Sure the Boy Wonder was his best friend, but Wally was sure that not even he would condone hanging around your cities villains, Rogues in his case. He would always defend that not everyone had to be beaten up to get the picture to stand down. Just look at Trickster. A promise of a few rounds of soft darts and he was as docile as a lamb. Couldn't do that with the Joker.

/Sounds like this plan may be very 'asterous./

/We're just going to have to take Ace with us. No sense in looping the footage if he's running around every room./

/Between that and keeping Al away from the area…No problem./

Setting their plan into motion Dick began tinkering with the cameras he knew Bruce had around different parts of the manor for security reasons. Looping the footage from when they started playing CoD from his gauntlet Dick picked up Ace and waited a few more seconds before Wally super-sped back into the room. He had, for good measure, turned on the videogame letting it start up. Al normally stayed away from the room when they were playing.

"Let's do this!"

A yip from Ace made both males look down. Apparently he too was feeling the aster.

"You heard the man," Wally said tapping Ace on the head. "To the secret room!"

"You did not just do that."

"Whatever dude let's go."

It took them a few minutes to get to the room Dick had been talking about earlier. It was on the top floor of the manor all the way on the east wing. To the outside it looked like a rather small space but Dick knew from experience that there was more that met the eyes with it.

Handing Ace over to Wally, Dick crouched down and picked the lock knowing that Bruce wouldn't have had too much security on it. Nobody would have gotten past the second floor let alone through the front door without him knowing about it.

The resounding click of the lock opening signified that they were that much closer to their prize. Standing back up Dick slipped the lock pick back into his jeans pocket before taking a hold of the handle and opening the door. No sense in some dramatic cheesy pause before the hero enters a new and mysterious place never before viewed by anyone but the head of the household.

No never that.

Pushing the door open Dick's hand dropped from the handle back to his sides. "What is all of this?"

Will we ever see Batman crack a smile? Will we ever find out what's in the lead lined box? Will Superman ever stop being a flipping pansy? What has our little bat seen in the room? Stay tuned to find out.

Next time on Dragon Ball Z! XD. Miss that show.