Team Year: 4

THE CAVE

Robin (Jason Todd) POV

So I have been Robin for a little over three years right now. And in those three years I've managed to fight a few aliens, robots, and gods. I'm sure that there is nothing I have not seen. Except been to space. Now that was going to change. "Robin you coming?" Rocket asked.

"To the moon. Of course," he replied. What kid did not want to see space?

"Well it's not the moon but an orbital space station," Miss Martian corrected.

"Alright kiddos line up," he heard Black Canary say.

"We are not kids," Karen moaned. Everybody agreed. Nobody like to be treated like a kid. Especially a bunch of teenagers who had saved the world a couple of times over.

"Sure you aren't," Black Canary says sarcastically as she implemented temporary codes for the Team. Rocket and her boyfriend Noble were the first to go.

"Designation B09, Rocket. Designation S1, Noble Augustus."

"Why are we bringing a civilian?" Robin asked.

"They want a engagement photo in the Watchtower," Zatanna replied. "And they want to make some announcement."

"Oh my god she's pregnant."

"Oh please that's not-"

"What could possibly be more important than an engagement and why else would Batman be ok with this."

"Why wouldn't he be ok with us making a visit?"

"Photographic evidence of the Justice League's secret HQ. Are you sure he is going to allow that out there?"

"Well if you tell him, we will kill you?" Black Canary said in a weirdly playful voice.

That somewhat scared him. "Did you not invite Nightwing?," he asked Zatanna

"Designation B10, Tempest. Designation B11, Aquagirl."

Zatanna then put on a psychotic smile. "Of course I would like to bring him along," she said. "Only if he was not going from door to door tonight selling his body to every harlot in town until he has been ridden so hard that he makes a 30 year old bike look new."

She was still mad about the Tarantula incident. Can't blame her.

"Designation A09, Karen Beecher. Designation A10, Mal Duncan"

"Well didn't you break up with him for the second time?" She looked enraged at his attempt to justify what Nightwing did.

"Still I expected him to spend AT LEAST ONE DAY before finding a new girlfriend. Don't be like your man-whore brother, find one girl and stay forever."

"Okkkkay," he said quite scared of her when she's angry. She will probably be mad at him for a long time.

"Come on he has probably tried to teach you some pick up techniques, back flip flower, reading a poem upside down, you know Nightwing stuff

"You know he doesn't talk to me right." Nightwing almost always avoided him when he could. Batman too so it was probably a casualty of Nightwing and Batman's bad relationship. Nightwing had only ever talked to him on team missions assigned by anyone but Batman, and when they rarely intersected on a case.

"Honestly I don't understand why, well besides the credit card thing. I mean he is the nicest person ever. How did you guys first meet."

"Uh," not under the most favorable of circumstanced, "Scarecrow mission, I was Robin for a month and Batman and I tracked him separately from Nightwing without telling each other. Then we tried to hide in the same spot to spy on Scarecrow then he attacked me thinking I was some sort of illusion. Our cover got blown and he was shot in the arm." She paused wondering if that is the end of the story. "Then the second time we met he jumped onto the ground as I took the Batmobile out of an alley and hit him with it breaking a rib." Now she seemed confused. "And the third time I was told by Batman to get his help on a murder case. He was sleeping so I snuck in with a League of Shadows sword covered in blood. He then woke up from his couch and attacked me."

She looked confused for a second then, "ha HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA," she kept laughing as they entered the Zeta tube.

"Designation B08, Zatanna. Designation B13, Robin."

THE WATCHTOWER

The laughter continued through the portal.

"So-hahahaha- so he thinks you are trying to kill him! World's greatest detective taught him well."

"I don't-actually that is probably right," there were other factors, but that was probably true. "I think he does not want to talk with Bruce and he kind of views me as a replacement Bruce got so they don't have to talk."

"He doesn't like being replaced!" she said sarcastically, "Buts its totally chill for him to plan Netflix and Chill as you break up with your girlfriend." Yeah she was never going to get over what they saw. "If only I could warn the next harlot he sees?"

They had been talking and walking and neither of them had realized that they were about to bump into Mal. When they realized they stopped.

"Wow," Jason said as they stared at the earth. He had seen some of the pictures that had shown earth from space but your own eyes gave you a new perspective.

"We have saved that thing about a dozen times by now," Miss Martian declared.

"Yeah. How did you guys get this thing?"

"Guardian of the Universe." They looked up and saw that it was Green Lantern. "We were looking for a new head quarters and the Lantern Corps had a spare base a few systems away. Stealth technology is the best in the universe and no Earth tech can detect it. Hence why it has been secret all this time."

"Interesting," Tempest said. "The Green Lantern Corp has dozens of these."

"Well newer models."

"So we got their old junk," Robin said.

"You think this is junk." Lantern said mockingly as the lights turned off.

"Well, junk would do that." Robin said as the lights were off.

"I would assume so too," he turned around to see the lights turn on and the British Prime Minster standing before them. The PM was probably the biggest backer of the Justice League in the world. Because of that he knew of some of the Justice League's identities, the existence of the Watchtower, and even had his own private Zeta-Tube! He had probably met every member of the League and the team by now.

"2 against 1, seems like I'm winning."

"That's bizarre. I'll check in on that," John Stewart said.

"What brings you here, Sir?" Robin asked

"Why do you always call me Sir?" For a man elected on an anti-elitist platform, he was always confused on why a kid, especially an American, would refer to him as High-Class.

"There is a British man who I would rather not disappoint with what he could consider my rude behavior."

"That might have told me too much, I may soon be able to find out your secret identity kid." Yeah right. "Either way Mal I need to talk with you and Dinah about the Enrea crisis."

"Sure." Mal said as they walked into a corner. Mal was the team's designated info guy. He was so good that he even got to do it for some of the League's stuff.

"*CLICK*," Robin looked over and saw Rocket and Noble kissing, taking a photo, with the earth in the background. "Now how do you like that babe." Noble said

"Like it, I love it," Rocket said as they kissed once again.

"Guys we have an announcement!" Noble said as they all looked at the couple.

"I'm pregnant!" Rocket said

"OH MY GOD" Black Canary said. Zatanna then looks at him with a 'how did you know?' look.

"Congratulations, for how long?" Zatanna and M'gann said in sync.

"Have you picked out a name?" Steward asked.

"For about two months and Amistad," Rocket replied.

"Cool name," Robin said. "So I assume you're taking a break from the team under a doctor's recommendation or something?"

"Probably, but I'm not sure when?"

"Do we give Maternity and Paternity leave?" Everybody pondered that for a second. For some of the people here this was a full time job with benefits. So the maternity/paternity package was a good question.

"I'll be back. Yo, where is the bathroom?" This guy didn't think to go to the bathroom before space and his girlfriend's pregnancy announcement.

"Take that hallway and it's the third door on your left," Black Canary said. Noble started to walk in that direction

"Should you really let a civilian walk around your HQ?," Robin asked

"Oh please, Batman doesn't watch people when they go to the bathroom in the Batcave."

Robin then proceeded to give a look that showed that he knew that wasn't true and then proceeded to look away.

"He doesn't right?," Black Canary asked in a panic. She saw the lack of response and fell into silence.

"What is the Batcave like?," Tula asked. Very few people had actually seen the Batcave. Even many members of the Justice League had not seen the cave. They knew it existed, but little about what's in it. Some people who had asked him about it thought it was a weapons bunker and torture chamber. Well... it had both of those things but they probably did not expect the giant dinosaur to be there.

"Can't say," everyone started to look at him. "What! Batman's orders."

"Well, we can't say that we are surprised. I mean if Superman did that with his Fortress of Solitude I would be surprised."

"Well Superman did tell me not to say anything about what's in his fortress?," then he realized that he had said too much.

"WAIT," Rocket yelled. Everybody was now looking at him. He should definitely not have said that. "YOU have been to the Fortress of Solitude."

"Seriously! I have way more experience than you and even I haven't been there," Zatanna said.

"Is it in the ocean?" Aquagirl said. "If it is I think Garth and I could find it?"

"Is it like really cool, or are we setting our expectations too high," Karen asked.

"Ummmmm..." He really did not know how to respond to that last question. It was... weird. Just everything seemed like a one-shot adventure Superman went on, while everything in the Batcave has defined Batman ever since he put it there. He personally liked the later.

"Wait? Where's Noble?" Rocket asked.

"I'll go check on him," Robin said, sprinting away. At least I can now get out of this conversation before I anger Superman anymore, he was still pissed off about me setting up a zeta-Tube in his parent's house. If I'm lucky they'll ask Superman instead of me. He then started to sprint down the hall. When he reached the men's bathroom he decided to enter. "Yo Noble your-" When he entered he saw Noble bleeding clothes ripped up and Ravager above him holding a sword. "-baby momma..."

Robin saw Ravager charge at him and he jumped backwards. Ravager did not come through the door, rather he came through the wall the force and parts of the concrete hit Robin forcing him to the other wall. He jumped to the left as Ravager kept charging at him, hitting the wall crashing into what appeared to be a storage room on the other side of the room. "What brings you here Ravager? Revenge for what Batman and I did to you and your daddy," Robin taunted.

"I don't need to do anything that petty," He responded with bravado.

"Well if you brought your sister I would-"

"FUCK YOU." With that he charged at Robin through a wall and into the what appeared to be a conference room. Slade's enhancements of his own son seemed to be useful. Robin jumped onto the table, Ravager overturned it causing Robin to jump into the air which followed with an explosive batarang to the face. He was enhanced with both superhuman strength and superhuman durability so he would probably be fine.

"What the hell!" Black Canary said. Ravager then got up and grabbed Robin before throwing him into the hole between the conference room and the hall way.

"Ow," Robin said. He looked up and instantly jumped to the side as he saw Rocket come towards him.

"UHHHHH," Rocket said. "Robin, who is this guy?"

"Grant Wilson, Deathstroke's sidekick." They heard a bunch of explosions come from the conference room.

"Seriously. That guy has a sidekick!" then Robin shrugged. "Wait where's Noble?!" she said in panic. Robin then looked over the side of the Bathroom where Ravager jumped out of. "No," she then panicked and went into the bathroom. There she saw Noble, "NOBLE."

He saw her crying and came over and put his hand on her shoulder. "Take him." Robin said as she looked at him. "We got this, get him help." She then picked him up and ran towards the Zeta Tube. Robin then went back to the conference room.

Robin saw small bits of fire, blood and explosions everywhere with Hawkman's mace being misplaced. "AHHHHHHHH," he heard from one of the corners. There he saw Ravager with Miss Martian, Zatanna, Garth, Tula, John Stewart, Black Canary, Mal, and Karen were holding him down to one side. He lunged with rage at Ravager with electric knuckles. He punched him in the stomach then grabbed him by the head and shoved him into a wall. Ravager almost looked out of it but Robin did not want to take any chances and beat him against the wall before attaching an explosive batarang on his back sending him 10 feet into the air before falling down and losing consciousness. Everybody got up and looked at Ravager's unconscious body and wanted answers.

"What happened?," Black Canary, slightly beat up, asked.

One Hour Later

Hawkman and Captain Atom came bay after Black Canary informed the League about the attack. Everybody was still in shock after what happened to Noble.

"We just got word from Rocket, Noble is going to be fine," everybody breathed a collective sigh of relief. "He is going to be in the hospital for a while, but he will be fine."

"Hcough HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA," they all heard a beat up Ravager laugh. "That's it isn't it. You're weakness. It your family. That's how I'll win. HAHAHAHHA-" Green Lantern gagged him.

"Why is he even here?" Green Lantern asked. Ravager started to look at the British Prime Minister.

"Uhhhh..." the PM said.

"Is he trying to kill you?" Black Canary asked.

"It appears so."

"I've checked the entire Watchtower it doesn't seem as though there is anyone else here. All footprints imply this was a one man job. I don't know how he got in here so we should pro-," Robin tried to continue before being cut off in his communicator.

"Robin." Batman said. "Get back to Gotham now I need your help."

"I'm on the Watchtower, I need-"

"You can sightsee another time."

"Sightsee?" Robin said with confusion. "Did you not get the League memo about the attack?" Then he heard an explosion in the background.

"Attack?... just get here if you can. Batman out," then the communications went out.

"sigh"

"Batman," Black Canary said, with the tone of expectations.

"Batman." Everybody knew what that meant. "I can st-"

"Go, you better not keep your boss waiting," Zatanna said.

Robin started to leave and walked down the hallway. As he walked down the hall he looked into the hole between the bathroom and the hall and wondered something, "How did he get in? And how did he know the Prime Minister was here?" He couldn't have known that the PM was here. That means he was after something else.

Instantly he noted something, the entrance from the vent was damaged. he jumped up and looked around the vent. On one side he saw some dirt on the vent. He decided to move in that direction. He eventually traversed the Watchtower's vent system for an hour. After a while he was confronted with something he did not expect. A robotic spider. He instantly caught the thing with his hand. What was this thing? It had some hexagons connected to form some sort of logo. He then used a small EMP to shutdown the robotic spider and put it away in his utility belt.

The scanners in his belt showed the device to be some sort of robot which used its legs as a data port.

Did Ravenger come here for espionage? There's no way that guy is an electronics expert, he must have been hired by someone. I wonder if anybody has seen this logo before.

"Tegrof ruo daeh sretrauq." He heard some gibberish and sought to check it out. Eventually he came across the vent outside the League's conference room. There he saw Zatanna and Miss Martian beside Ravager and the PM. Zatanna seemed to be performing some type of spell. To the further edge there was Garth, Tula, John Stewart, Black Canary, Hawkman, Captain Atom, Mal, and Karen.

"Do you think you can do it?," he heard Garth say.

"I don't know, we have only ever removed memories and inserted suggestions," Miss Martian said. What the hell! They are mind wiping super villains. What suggestions were they inserting.

"We know, but think about this. If we can rehabilitate him, we could do this to others," Mal said. Everybody looked at each other, somewhat uncomfortable with what they are doing.

"We should probably first change Prime Minister Scott's memories to follow his Secretary of State on the Enrea crisis. Just like Rhelasia and Santa Prisca," Miss Martian said.

Wait a second! THEY ARE BRAINWASHING WORLD LEADERS!

That's very undemocratic. A new world order where our leaders are just pawns of an elite super hero club. Isn't this what the light is trying to do?

"That's not the same thing as changing someone's personality." Zatanna said.

"But it could give him a second chance. To be free of his Father."

There was a long pause in the room.

"Alright let's try and make Grant Wilson a hero," Zatanna said. As she was about to perform magic a batarang came at her knocking her to the ground.

"WHAT THE HELL?" Robin yelled.

"RO-" he activated his flash bang and everybody could not see for a few seconds and when they could Robin and the unconscious Ravager were gone.

Ok a faction of the Justice League is brainwashing super villains. Seems pretty diabolical. Why did he try to save Ravager anyway?

Robin's Fantasy

Rose Wilson and Robin look out a window seeing the members of the League haul away to a Belle Reve truck, while Ravager goes to Arkham Asylum.

"Robin you saved my brother from certain destruction." Rose said ash she pushed him onto a bed. "You even fought the Justice League for him. I don't think I can every repay you." She started to take off her shit. "But I can try..."

Robin in Reality

Well... better save this guy.

"Batman." He tapped his communicator. "Batman." They must have cut off communications from the Watchtower. Then he saw Miss Martian phase through the floor. He tried to pick up Ravager but then Miss Martian started levitating his body. Robin reacted by jumping to the side and throwing another flash bang. He had disappeared. This time without Ravager's body. "He's gone," Miss Martian said.

He ran into the storage facility. He tried to find some communications equipment but anything here was too alien to him. Literally.

Ok I've got no communications, no way out, and I'm out numbered eight supers and two interns to one. Hawkman and Captain Atom ran into the storage facility to track him. He was hiding above the shelves but could echo his voice to talk to them.

"Listen to us kid. You have no idea what you saw and if you understand you would do it too," Captain Atom said.

"You sound like I just walked in on my parents having sex." When Captain Atom and Hawkman came charging at him he used Per Degaton's staff to freeze them in time. After they were both hit and they were frozen in time. Then he got hit from the side. Then somebody grabbed his cape. He dropped the staff and saw Tula, Tempest and Black Canary. He cut off his cape from the rest of his costume with a batarang. He then hid behind some of the shelves in the storage facility.

"So you all are looking to brainwash super villains now? Don't remember that in the Teams handbook," Black Canary looks behind the shelf and sees no one.

"Listen, Robin. We can talk this out. You see we needed to make sure that no villain knew anything about our Watchtower," Black Canary replied.

"Bullshit, why was Noble on the place then? If you cared about security you would consider everyone who is not an agent to be a threat," he said with profound disappointment. "And why then would you try to force the PM to make decisions you want him to."

"Robin we could fix Grant," Tempest said as a bond villain trying to recruit me. "He is a poor, unlucky kid. His father manipulated him, were trying to help him have a better future. Like the one Batman gave you." There was a silence for a while after that.

"Do you seriously think that brain washing and child adoption are morally equal? And still ignoring the PM question."

"Robin, these people need help," Aquagirl said with a helicopter mom's tone. "We can make him a better member of society."

"Then why not do this to Oceanmaster, make him a great Atlantian price again?" Jason replied. Then an awkward silence followed. "My god you do want to do this to Oceanmaster." Oceanmaster had gone underground since Aquaman discovered his identity.

The three heroes thought that they had surrounded him they all jumped him at once. Then they all just went through him and they realized that it was a hologram.

Robin had left the room soon after the three had entered it. He was already at the Zeta Tube when he was engulfed by a green hand. "LANTERN," he yelled.

"Sorry kid but I create anti-flash glasses with my ring so don't even bother tryin-" then all he could hear was a loud screech. A sonic bomb will leave him temporally paralyzed but could not last long. Robin ran over to the console and saw that he could not input to the Batcave, probably had to do with the fact that he did not have security access to the Watchtower. Had to hack and go with the phone booth in Gotham (he had pre-built settings that would allow anyone he wanted to use that one). When he was about to run into the Zeta-Tube, Miss Martian appeared. Then he heard a loud smash behind him.

He threw a batarang that was avoided. Hawkman had broken his sonic device. Then he was encircled by the eight with Mal and Karen looking off to the side.

"Ok what are you going to do?," Robin asked.

"We are not going to hurt you?," Zatanna tried to reassure him

"No you are just going to brainwash me," he responded with great disappointment in his voice. "That is some social engineering right there."

"You have no idea what-," Hawkman tried to say.

"I get the gist. You guys mind wipe people and reprogram them to your will. That's what you did with the PM, and what you were trying to do with Grant"

"Well they are mainly idea planting in super villains or important people who just needed guidance," Garth argued.

"Mainly?" Robin asked. They all responded with awkward silence. "What are you guys doing?" he said in disappointment.

"Listen kid you have no idea what you are talking about. Now get out of the way and let the adults do the work," Captain Atom declared. "Do you remember the Secret Society swapped bodies with the Justice League?"

"Yeah," Robin remembered when that happened. He was still a street orphan but the anti-Justice League riots that occurred when they were seen robbing banks and museums allowed him to steal a few thousand bucks from Falcone. Then it came out that Reverse Flash, Wizard, and some other villains had swapped bodies with the Justice League. That excuse never held up well with the public, and it's why we have Godfrey .

"Well do you think that they never looked under the mask?" Ok... well they were not complete idiots... maybe the guy who called himself the Floronic Man. "That is when we first started removing the memories of our adversaries to protect our secret identities."

"That seems reasonable, and I assume it was only you guys who have done this?" If I can get them to rat out anyone else before I escape I will be on better footing to convince the rest of the League about this.

"No one, we do this all together or not at all." Well that was easy.

"Then what were you guys saying about making the Prime Minister of England subservient to your demands."

"We were not enslaving him, the league cannot divulge classified information about our adversaries. So we have him make the decision he would have made if he knew about the situation," Miss Martian told him.

"And you make that judgment. So you are now a Cabal that can influence world policy at will. That's why he got the private Zeta tube." he said critically.

"That's not tru-" she was cut off.

"No it is true. What have you made him do?" he asked not expecting a the full truth but a series of bad truth's to conceal a bigger one.

"We had him modify superhuman control legislation," Captain Atom said. "We also had him vote for UN resolutions against Queen Bee joining." Ok, the former was controversial in the UK, a few authoritarian regimes strictly monitor superhumans, but they mainly follow political adversaries. The later was a surprise because even the Americans thought it was a good idea to let them in.

"And what else the Libyan intervention?" did the Light have something to do with the Gaddafi regime.

"No that's not necessary to the Light," Zatanna said.

"The Enrea crisis?" Enrea was a country on the Red sea across from Bialyia on the southern Arabian Peninsula. It was currently in a civil war when its interior and northern providences almost seceded. Since then the war has produced 3 million refugees (generously supported by the Wayne and Kord Foundations) and nearly 200,000 dead, one million refugees.

"Nothing," Mal blurted. The guy was clearly lying. He paused for a second.

"Did you guys start the crisis?" It had clearly been a problem for Queen Bee, but would they start a civil war to stop her?

There was a loud silence followed by his question

"My god!" he exclaimed.

"You don't-" Black Canary tried to say.

"No I DO UNDERSTAND. This is what the entire world has feared since the founding of the Justice Society and its expansion into the All Star Squadron. That a group of us, heroes, would get behind closed doors and decide the fate of the world. That's why Godfrey has been on our asses for so long." Batman will rub this incident in his face. All because of The Babel protocols. So Batman was right about needing those after all? "I understand why each of you would think to this." This statement surprised the entire room since they thought for sure he would not have approved.

"Karen and Mal are probably most paranoid about not having super villains know who they are, one probably figured out your identities in the first place and then you guys joined this group." The two of them then gave facial expressions showing he was right.

"Black Canary and Zatanna's moms were both killed by super villains thus they know the purpose of a secret identity." The two of them looked saddened by the mention of their parents.

"Captain Atom, Hawkman, and Green Lantern are all ex-military. Specifically they fought wars because their leaders did not take threats such as communism, terrorism, and intergalactic imperialism seriously until it was too late." The three of them looked at him as though it were an insult.

"Tula and Garth both want to 'fix' their former boss Oceanmaster." They actually kept their faced calmed.

"But you-" he said pointing to Miss Martian, "-I have no idea why you would do this."

"Garfield." That makes sense now. Garfield's identity was known and his mom paid a price.

"Still doesn't justify brainwashing. I think Ms. Logan would have agreed with me." She did not like him mentioning Garfield's mom.

"Listen Robin you can lose your memories or you can join us."

"Neither," Robin said as he fired his grappling hook at Miss Martian. She dodged it but it latched onto the size of the Zeta-Tube.

"What did you expect to accomplish with that?" She asked

"This." Then the batarang he had thrown at Hawkman exploded taking the window out as well.

Suddenly everybody was pulled back into space. Captain Atom and Miss Martian tried to grab and fly everyone else but could neither pick them up or fly away from the vacuum.

Green Lantern puts up a barrier around where the air is escaping. Everybody hit the ground hard as the vacuum was disconnected from the room. As everybody recovers Robin runs to the Zeta-Tube. As he gets in Miss Martian starts invading his mind. "Robin." He heard her voice in his head. "Forget" then all of a sudden his memories started making less and less sense she was peeling away his memories. But he was strong he was able to resist temporarily.

"Designation B13, Robin."

Then all of a sudden it wasn't just his memories that seemed as if they were slipping everything was. What the hell. Then darkness shrouded him. He could not see anything but his own body and even then it wasn't moving on his command. What was happening to him. His body started to smash something. He couldn't tell what because of the darkness, just the action of what his hand was doing.

GOTHAM CITY

Third Person Narrator

Robin exited the phone booth after tearing up the wires inside. But he did not do this out of his own will. Rather the psychic blast had rendered him into a sort of defacto state. Unable to make many words or do anything but a limp sort of walking. He traveled to find somewhere or somebody that he would consider a save space.

"Batman," he said.

As he limped across the empty streets of Gotham. So did a great evil that was about to take interest in him. It saw him from a far and could not believe it. OF COURSE I CANNOT BELIEVE IT. THE ULTIMATE WAY TO SCREW WITH BATS JUST APPEARED TO ME ON A SILVER PLATTER.

As Robin limped down the street the evil tried to stand in its way. "Kid stop and-" but he just kept walking. "Hello." It waved its hand in front of Robin. "Bird boy, is there something wrong with you?" The evil attempts to pinch Robin, only to be thrown into the neighboring store. but just as he start's walking along he is hit with a hammer.

"Puddin are you alright."

Alight she asks. I'm orgasmic. Here is my greatest joke. Batman will never be able to forget this one.

"We need to take this to the rest."

"Why?"

"I need a big audience for my best work. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."