Hey, uh...

I decided to change most of the chapter

Also, sorry that it's not that long

I'll try to get the next chapter done soon

I also didn't edit, so there might be spelling mistakes

Disclaimer: I don't own YJ

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Dick stared at his hand. They had returned to the cave a few hours ago, and the Boy Wonder had gone under multiple tests. There apparently wasn't anything wrong with him, but Batman had ordered them to stay in the cave until further notice.

Dick sighed as he slouched on his bed (they had all been assigned rooms as soon as the tests were over). None of this made any sense. What had happened in Gotham? Who was that?

He was brought out of his thoughts as he heard a knock at his door. "Who is it?" He asked as he reached for the sunglasses he had taken off.

"It's me." Dick retracted his hands as he heard Wally's voice.

"Come in."

The door slid open to reveal the red head. "Hey, Rob. How are you doing?"

The bird groaned. "Asterous. Totally asterous." He let himself fall onto his bed and closed his eyes.

"Is it the Gotham thing? If that's the case-"

"It's not just the Gotham thing. It's... This world... Bothers me."

Wally gave him a confused look. "What do you mean?"

"I... I..." Dick brought his hands to his face in frustration. "It's different. My life takes a completely different turn here."

The speedster laid down next to his best friend. "Once again. What do you mean?"

Dick groaned as he looked over and made eye contact with the speedster. "I'm... presumed dead." Wally's eyes widened. "I don't know why... But knowing this... It bothers me. It bothers me so much. And knowing that it didn't have to be me that bonds with Bruce... And it wasn't me that broke down his barrier completely..." The boy shook his head. "It's stupid... But it hurts..."

They were silent for a second, both not knowing what to say, before Wally brought the younger boy into a hug. "Look... I may not know how you feel about this mess. But I'm here if you need a shoulder to cry on."

Dick nodded as he returned the hug.

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"Recognized: Blue Bird B-zero-one."

"Hey," greeted Jason as he strolled into the living room the next day. There he found the whole team. He lunged over the back of the couch and landed in between Robin and Wally. "What'd I miss?"

Wally shrugged, "Nothing really. We've just been in the mountain."

"Man, that sounds boring."

Robin adjusted his sunglasses, and intentionally used his hand to cover the side of his face. He could feel Jason staring at him through his sunglasses. What was he trying to do? Had he figured out who he was? No. That's impossible. He slowly brought his hand down, and let his eyes wander over to Jason.

Robin quirked an eyebrow as he examined Jason's face. "Are you wearing concealer?"

"What?" Jason brought his hand to his left cheek. "You can tell?"

"Yeah. You didn't blend it as well as you thought you did."

"Damn."

"So..." Wally trailed off as tried to get a better view of Jason's face. "What'cha hiding?"

Jayson sighed as he wiped the makeup off his face to reveal a dark bruise. "Long story short, Batman and I were chasing an assassin. We split up to find him after we got to a fork in the road. I found him and we got into a fist fight, and he punches really hard. Like, you wouldn't expect it! He looks like a stick at first glance!" Jason slouched as he rubbed his cheek. "I guess that his armour helped."

"Batman let you go after an assassin on your own? And how long have you been his partner?" questioned Robin.

"Six months."

"Six months!?"

"To be fair it was my idea, and he couldn't argue or else he would get away. And even if he hadn't listened to me, the most he's ever done to a hero is break a limb. He's only ever killed the bad guys. You know, like drug dealers and rapists."

Robin's eyes narrowed. "So he's one of those people."

The other bird nodded. "I guess you could say that."

"Recognized: Speedy B-zero-three."

They all looked at each other before getting up and walking into the training room. There stood Captain Marvel (their current den mother) and Speedy.

"...due to the League business." Captain Marvel nodded before leaving the cave with a childish smile and wave.

"You would think that he was a child with the way he acts," mumbled Jason. This got a few snickers from the team. "What?" he asked. "What did I say?"

"It's nothing."

"So... What brings you back here?" asked Artemis as she stepped forward.

Speedy sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "GA has to deal with league business and asked me to take his shift as den mother."

"League business?" asked M'gaan.

"Did they give you any details?" asked Robin, and only got a shake of Speedy's head.

Speedy brought up a holocomputer, "Ollie said something about assassins causing trouble all around America, mainly assassins from the League of Shadows."

"They're definitely who the league is after," said Robin as he scrolled through the Justice Leagues database on his holocomputer. "Damn. They've gotten around a lot in the passed two days. Mostly criminals too. What do you think caused this sudden spike in assassinations?"

"How did you access... Nevermind..." said Speedy as he waved the teen off. "Do you think that somebody has hired them to knock off competition?"

"Most likely..."

"But why... Why would they need to-" Speedy cut himself off as the power suddenly shut down. "What the hell?"

Robin growled. "We've been hacked!" he exclaimed as he went through his holocomputer. It was pretty sloppy too. They didn't even try to cover up their tracks!

All eyes widened as they heard an explosion sound from inside the mountain. "It came from over there!" exclaimed Superboy as he ran towards the Hangar. (Not before Zatanna casted a quick spell to get them into their costumes.)

As they got to the Hangar, Robin could faintly make out the outlines of two slim figures in the small about of light escaping from the broken hangar doors.

Once seemed to almost purr as she spoke, "Hey, Roy. Long time no see."

Artemis's eyes widened as Speedy notched an arrow. "What do you want Cheshire?"

The began slowly to move toward the group. "Not much really... I just came to see what those strange energy readings were from a few days ago."

"But," The team visibly flinched at the familiar (yet somewhat more mature) voice. "we did need to distract the league first." said Tigress as she brought out a sword.

"But why?" asked Blue Bird as he got his batarangs ready. "Why would you need to disable the mountains power? Why did you even need to investigate?"

"No power means that whatever's in here won't get out. Well... With the exception of the hole I made." said Chesire as she brought out Kunai knives. "As for why... That's for you to find out!" she exclaimed as she lunged as Speedy.

"Link established."

"Holy crap. What is this?" asked Blue Bird as he gave Miss Martian a surprised look.

"It's a mind link so that we can privately make plans. Now stay focused." hissed Robin as he blocked a swing of Tigresses sword with an escrima stick. "We're all at a disadvantage here. None of us can see."

"Speak for yourself." said Superboy as he fought beside Robin. "I can fight while using infrared."

"Same here." said Kid Flash.

Robin narrowed his eyes as he kicked Tigress in the gut. She let out an annoyed huff before an arrow came flying at her feet. Tigress narrowly dodged it and growled at the foam forming on the ground.

"Geez, how many sidekicks does Green Arrow need?"

"We're not sidekicks!" exclaimed Artemis as she threw a punch at Tigress's face. They both shouted in pain as Artemis's fist connected with Tigress's bare cheek.

They both jumped away from one another. "What the hell was that!?" exclaimed Artemis as she gripped her knuckles.

"I could be asking you the same thing!" exclaimed her counterpart as she charged at her.

"Robin! Do you think that you could start up the power again and contact the League?" asked Aqualad.

"Oh... Uh, right. I'm on it!" Robin backed away from the distracted blondes and headed to a secure corner. Why didn't I do this sooner? He asked himself as he brought up his holocomputer, barely aware of the fact that Aqualad had made his way over to him and was protecting him. (He also faintly processed Miss Martian stating that she and Speedy had restrained Chesire.) In a matter of minutes, the lights immediately lit up, and Batman's voice could be heard from the other room. "Got it!"

"-at happened?" exclaimed Batman from the other room.

"KF, go handle Bats." commanded Robin as he turned off his

"On it!" he exclaimed as he dashed out of the room.

Now that the lights were on, they could get a better grasp on where everybody was, and how they were fairing. Zatanna seemed to have something wrapped around her mouth and she was trying to rip it off, (When did that happen?) while Miss Martian, Blue Bird, and Speedy stood in front of Chesire (she was stuck to the ground by Speedy's foam). Robin whipped around when he heard Superboy give an annoyed grunt as Artemis's foam accidentally trapped his fist along with Tigress.

"Sorry, Superboy!"

Kid Flash ran back into the room and skidded to a halt beside Speedy. "The league still needs to deal with the assassins, but Batman said that they would get to the mountain as soon as possible."

Tigress scoffed. "Y'know. This job would've been a lot easier if he actually came."

"Oh, c'mon sis. He had a job to do. Cut him some slack." purred Chesire from her place in the room.

A cackle sounded through the hangar as a figure entered through the hole Chesire had made. "Yeah, Tigress. Cut me some slack. Missions assigned by Deathstroke aren't as easy as you may think."

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Sorry that it's not an 'actual' update.

I just decided that I wanted to go in a different direction than I had originally wanted