Domino skipped around in the middle off the main group of Rogues. From what she had heard it was the founding members of the Rogues. They were babysitting her for the next two weeks. Mommy and Papa were having some fun out of the country and they said she was still too young to come along. She could start coming along in three more years they had told her. When she turned ten she could start going out of country with her parents. She went out of country with some of her babysitters, but they never took jobs while they had her. Well, Uncle Deadshot did but she promised not to tell her parents about that. She always got to play with Zoe while Uncle Deadshot was working so she didn't mind. She was kinda sad that she had to leave Gotham for the next two weeks as she had to cancel some plans with Robin. On the other hand, though she was happy to be babysat by the Rogues. She really liked her Uncle CC. He was funny and he was very overprotective of her. he didn't outwardly show it all the time, but she could tell.
"Uncle CC are we almost there?" she asked as she skipped along.
Captain Cold gave a resigned sigh, "Do you have to call me that Dom?"
Domino giggled as she hugged his arm, "Uncle Captain Cold is way too long to say. Plus, you call me Dom which makes me sound like a boy." She pouted slightly, but she liked her nickname and they all knew it.
Cold smirked, "Domino is too long. But, yeah, we are almost there. Just a few more blocks."
Domino nodded as she let go of his arm. She then made her way over to Trickster and got his attention, "Hey Uncle T, can I have my backpack back now?"
Trickster looked down at Domino then to the small backpack hooked over his shoulder. He looked very conflicted, "I don't know Dom… Harley told us not to give it to you until we get to our base."
"But Uncle CC said we are almost there. I won't open it up I swearsies." Domino gave her best baby doll eyes and had to hold back a shriek of victory when he gave in.
"Fine you little cheater, now stop giving me those eyes." He grumbled as she handed over the backpack.
"Yay!" Domino exclaimed as she grabbed it and put the mustard yellow bag on her back. She didn't know why she had picked that color but it had just seemed right. Normally she didn't mind and would let them keep hold of it. This time however her backpack had her brand-new utility belt. She had taken to following Batman around nightly for months. All she did was shadow his movements and talk constantly, never stopping her endless chatter. Every so minutes she would ask him to make her a belt. She always got a gruff, "No." before he took off. It always took her a few minutes to find him again and start her up her pointless discussions with the Bat. Robin had found the entire thin absolutely amusing and she was pretty sure that he helped her during the day as well. Finally, one night when she asked he had chucked something at her. she had caught it out of instinct. When she realized what it was she had squealed so loudly and glomped him. She had hugged him so tightly he'd had to pry her off of him. She had thanked him about thirty times before finally giving him a well-deserved break from her. She knew he had a soft spot for her ever since he had met her four years ago, but she also knew that she had a tendency to get on his nerves. Having practically grown up around him she knew what buttons to push. Since she had gotten her belt she didn't like leaving it too far away from her. How embarrassing would it be to have to ask Batman for a new belt so soon after getting her first one.
With her belt safely back with her she happily followed her Uncle CC who was leading the way. To anyone else it probably looked like she was being corralled to her doom somewhere by the Rogues. She knew however they were keeping her safe by having her stay in the middle of them. The Rogues had many enemies, not just the Flash.
The Flash was going out on patrol when he saw something that made his skid to a stop. The main group of Rogues were escorting a child to who knows where. In the back of his mind he knew that they wouldn't' hurt her. The Rogues had a not hurting children policy that they followed faithfully. Still having a child with them couldn't possibly be a good thing. Plus, he hadn't seen all eight founding members of the Rogues together in over a year. It equaled nothing but trouble. First thing was first, he had to get the kid away to somewhere safe and away from possible collateral damage.
One moment Domino she was skipping along in the middle of her escort, she was about to ask her Uncle Piper a question. The next moment she was in someone's arms and her Uncle's were disappearing into the distance.
"Hey let me go you big red bully!" Domino shouted while pounding her fists on his back fruitlessly.
"Don't worry little one. You're safe now. I don't know what the Rogues wanted with you, but I'll get you home safe and sound, don't you worry." Flash tried to reassure her. He was a bit confused that the girl kept hitting him as he was helping her. He ignored her as he figured she was just a scared girl. He took her to one of his safehouses, one the he barely even uses anymore. All that was in there were some of his chemistry supplies and workout equipment. He figured it would be safe enough for her there until he got done with the Rogues. The chemicals were all locked up and the warehouse was able to be locked and unlocked by a code or his handprint. He would drop her off there, lock her in, and then go deal with the Rogues quickly before coming back for her. He got to the warehouse and quickly dropped her off on the couch, "Stay here for a bit, you'll be safe here. I'll be back when I'm done with the Rouges and then I'll come right back to get you kiddo."
"Don't call me Kiddo. Hey wait…!" Domino yelled out but he was already gone.
Domino hopped off of the couch with a scowl on her face as she made her way to the door, "Stupid heroes not listening to what people say. Stupid Flash ruining my time with my Uncles." As she got to the door she tried opening it but it stayed stuck shut. She turned her head to look for any other way for her to open the door. A frown overtook her face as she saw the electronic keypad lock. She didn't know how to hack yet. She could pick locks with the best of them by now, but Auntie Selina had just started teaching her how to hack things. She was not good at it all yet. The best she could do right now was take apart the pad, cut all the wires, and hope it would unlock the door. With her luck however, it would probably permanently lock the door. With a resigned sigh she looked around her temporary prison. This was worse than when Mr. Penguin took her. At least then she had someone around to talk to.
She turned back around to look at the rest of the room. A gleam went through her eyes as she saw the locked chemical cabinets. She might not be the best with technology yet, but chemicals, chemicals she could work with. Her Papa was a chemical genius and she watched him work all of the time. She knew that her Uncles would be looking for her, probably getting ready to tear up the city. A grin overtook her face. She should give them a sign to where she was. Prep would take a bit so she got straight to work picking the cabinet locks.
While Domino was focused and clear minded, the Rogues were freaking out.
"Oh god, what are we going to do?" Mirror Master panicked. "Harley and the Joker are going to kill us."
"The first time we get to watch her for more than a weekend and we lose her before we can even get to the base." Heat Wave moaned despondently.
"Everyone get your acts together. We just have to find Flash and get him to tell us where he stashed Dom. Hopefully before she does something stupid." Cold said, getting everyone's attention.
"Yeah, I'm more worried about what Dom will do to Flash than the other way around. Deadshot's been sayin' that she had been experimenting more recently." Boomerang said.
"At least she doesn't have all of her supplies in her backpack." Weather Wizard said, relief evident in his voice.
There was a moment of silence before Trickster sheepishly said, "Well, um… actually about that, I gave it back to her already."
"You what!" they all exclaimed.
"We were almost there and she asked for it back. She gave me the baby doll eyes, you guys know I can't say no to her baby doll eyes." Trickster rambled out.
"Ugh, okay. That just means we are going to have to find her sooner than later. I'd give her a half an hour tops before she gets bored." Top said.
"So how should we call Flash out?" Piper asked excitedly.
"Did someone say my name?" Flash grinned at them before turning serious, "What were you doing the kid?"
Cold pulled his gun off of his back and casually pointed it at the Flash, "None of your business ya red idiot. If you know what's best for you you'll give her back."
"Don't make us fight you for her Flash." Mirror Master said. If they had to fight for Domino they would all go all out and Flash wouldn't stand a chance. The Flash sucked for stopping their plans all of the time but none of them really wanted the man dead, they were all pretty lucky with the hero they got. The could have been stuck with the Bat, or heaven forbid Superman.
"Yeah, you'll end up regretting it if you don't give her back, and soon." Captain Boomerang told him. For once he wasn't actually threatening the man, he was simply stating facts. Domino could be vicious if she thought that her family was in danger, or you interrupted time she got to spend with them.
Almost like Pied Piper was thinking the same thing he asked nervously, "Un, how much time has passed?"
Heat Wave looked at his watch and a curse left his mouth as a slightly panicked look appeared on his face, "Almost twenty minutes."
"Listen Flash boy we ain't doing anything bad with Dom. We are her babysitters. Her parents will literally have our heads if we don't get her back." Boomerang bit out. "And bribe her not to tell." He mumbled to himself but everyone could hear him. They all knew that Domino was going to get away with absolutely anything for the next two weeks.
Flash raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms, "Really? Who would trust you guys to watch their kid?"
Mirror Master let out a snort of laughter, "You don't listen to Gotham gossip at all do you?"
Flash frowned, "No, not really. It's not my town and I'm not going into the Bat's territory. The guy might have just officially joined the League but I don't have a death wish. Gotham is all his."
Top smirked, "Dom has been all over the Gotham chatter for the past four years; both underground and in the news."
"Who is she then?" Flash asked irritably.
"Her name is Domino Quinn and she's the daughter of the Joker." Trickster said seriously.
Almost like they had planned it a large explosion was heard in the distance. A large column of smoke giving off the location of where they assumed Domino was located.
Weather Wizard let out a nervous chuckle, "We found her"
Flash looked at the billowing smoke with wide eyes, "My safehouse." He whined out not quite believing what he was seeing.
Cold put his gun away and let out a smirk "Heat Wave, Trickster you're with me. The rest of ya go get our base ready for Dom. Let's go gather our charge boys."
"She blew up my safehouse!" Flash exclaimed in a slight shock.
"Yeah she can get explosive when she gets bored. Or when she wants to get someone's attention." Cold said before he took off towards Dom's homemade smoke signal.
When they got to the burning warehouse they all saw firefighters taming the fire and Domino casually kicking her feet back and forth off of the hood of a police car. The three Rouges stayed back a bit, but the Flash kept approaching.
Domino looked over at the people approaching. Cold watched in complete amusement as Domino started acting.
Domino's eyes instantly filled with tears as she turned back to the officer she had been previously been talking to, "There he is Sir. He's the one that kidnapped me from my escort and locked in the scary building. I almost died because he left me unattended in a building with unstable chemicals." She cried as she pointed directly at the Flash.
The poor officer looked at Flash with wide eyes, it wasn't like they could do anything against the town's hero. Her turned back to look at the little girl who had tears streaming down her face after seeing the Flash, "Um… are you sure he's the one that took you sweetie?"
She looked up at the officer as her eyes went wide, a look of fear entered her face, "There are two people dressed up in red that can run really fast?"
"Ah… no." he said trying to calm down the child. He turned to the one in charge, "What are we supposed to do boss?"
The chief of police let out a sigh. He knew he should have stayed in bed today, "What is going on Flash?" he demanded.
"It's just a misunderstanding. I thought she was in danger." Flash said quickly.
"Were you in any danger Miss?" the officer asked.
"No Sir. My uncle hired some guys to bring me to him here in Central. I'm supposed to stay with him for the next two weeks, but I live in Gotham. My Uncle is scared of Gotham so he hired some people to keep me safe from Gotham to here. Mr. Flash took me away just as we got to my Uncle." Domino sniffed.
The Rogues that were present had to hide their snickers at Domino's little performance. Cold had to admit it was a really good cover story, and one that they would stick to. He looked to the side as he saw Mirror Master in his civilian identity approaching the police line. Good the man had remembered what he was supposed to do in a situation like this.
"Who is your Uncle Miss?" The chief asked.
Domino looked to the side and saw Uncle CC, Uncle Heat Wave, and Uncle T hiding in the shadows and knew that the rest of them were probably nearby. Then her eyes caught the figure of her Uncle MM and she smirked internally. Uncle MM must have stepped into a mirror somewhere along the way and changed into his civvies.
She ignored the police officer and jumped off the hood of the car. She ran over to her uncle and jumped into his arms, "Uncle Sammy!"
Mirror Master scooped up his honorary niece as he officially joined her act, "Of thank the heavens you are alright. I was so worried about you Dom, you just vanished." He turned to the officer, "Thank you so much for saving her Sir. If it's alright with you I would just like to forget this whole thing. I did hire some well-known muscle to escort my niece. I just want to get my niece home."
The chief let out a sigh, normally he wouldn't but this was far from a normal situation, "Very well. Would you like an escort back to your house Sir?"
Mirror Master shook his head, "No thank you my car is just around the corner. Thank you again." He shook the officer's hand and then promptly turned around and made his way toward the hidden Rogues. When they were out of eyeshot Mirror Master passed Domino off to Captain Cold. Cold settled her on his hip and refused to let her go, another way she could tell that he was overprotective. Samuel Scudder stepped into a nearby window and quickly changed back into his villain outfit and Mirror Master stepped back out. He got back in time to hear Trickster ask her a question.
"Really Dom? You blew up the warehouse?" Trickster looked at her incredulously.
Domino shrugged her shoulders and looked at them with innocent eyes, "Who knew that Potassium Chlorate mixed with powdered sugar would go boom if a tiny little flame hit it?"
Heat Wave grinned and gave her a high five, "Way to go my little pyro buddy."
Domino giggled as she snuggled into her Uncle CC's coat. She knew that the explosion wasn't overall that big of a deal. There had been nobody around to hurt, and the flames could be put under control in not much time. The explosion would give her an exit to her prison and notify her family where she was. It would also hurt the Flash slightly, which he totally deserved after kidnapping her. All in all, it was totally a win-win move.
Domino looked up at her Uncle CC and a smirk started overtaking her face, "Can I have ice cream?"
"Haven't even had diner yet Dom." He replied, hoping she would stop there.
A thoughtful look appeared on her face, "I can't wait until I get home and tell Mommy and Papa all about meeting the Flash today. I'm sure that they would be completely okay with everything and not be mad at all."
Cold let out a resigned groan, "Fine you can have ice cream, just don't tell your folk. I don't feel like dying quite yet."
Domino's giggles were heard as they entered the Rogues' base and it sent shivers down all their backs. They were in for a long two weeks. If only heroes knew that all you need to take down most villains was a seven-year-old little girl with blackmail.
