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Chapter Seven: Robin's Explosive Reunion. I DO NOT OWN Young Justice or anything.
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Chapter Seven
Robin's Explosive Reunion
Dick managed to sneak back in the ball room unseen and hide from M'gann. She searched the entire venue for Dick but she couldn't find him anywhere, in the end she headed back outside hoping that he ran back out after not being able to find Bruce. Little did she know that Dick was hiding in the kitchen's walk-in fridge.
Unfortunately for Dick, he didn't have much of a choice but to stay in the fridge and change into his Robin gear, on the plus side he had half of it on already and covered up by his dashing black tuxedo. As soon as Robin had geared up he hid his backpack with his tuxedo inside and ran straight to the ballroom.
As he entered he spotted Batman and Green Arrow fighting a bunch of the guys dressed in black. Robin, as much as he wanted to go over help Bruce, knew as soon as the Justice League saw him he would be in trouble. He had to stay hidden and out of sight as much as he could because it wouldn't take long for Batman to realize he was there. After all he is The Batman.
The room was now a complete mess. Broken chairs and tables lay scattered across the floor, glass everywhere. The windows had been smashed and more men had entered at some point but a few had been sent back out by the Justice League.
Looking around the ballroom again Robin spotted Kid Flash fighting about four of the men in black on his own and even with his speed he was slowly getting into trouble. With no other back-up, Robin was the only one available to help the speedster, and there was no way he was letting his best friend get hurt by some crazed up loony that had it in for him. No one was going to get hurt tonight because of him; Robin would do anything to keep them all safe. This was his fight.
"Dude, what are you doing?" Kid Flash asked when he noticed Robin fighting alongside him.
"Preventing you from being owned." Robin said as he jumped and then flipped into the air, he threw three batarangs at three of the bad guys, pinning them against the nearby wall. Kid was then easily able to knock out the other man before turning to Robin.
"Thanks, but I was doing fine my own."
"Dude, you were getting your butt kicked."
"Was not!" Kid exclaimed, "And stop changing the subject."
"What do you think I'm doing here?" Robin groaned as he pulled a couple more batarangs out of his belt before taking off and charging at another two men in black that had spotted them.
Robin jumped high into the air and flipped over the bad guys landing behind them. Once he landed on the ground he spun around so fast that Kid smiled slightly, clearly impressed. Robin threw the batarangs and, like before, the force of his throw was so great that it sent them into the wall, knocking them out and pinning them there.
"Nice move," Kid smiled looking at the men, but his smile quickly faded and he turned to Robin. "I was hoping you would listen to Bats for once, and go home."
"You know me KF, I won't just sit back watch others fight my fights for me."
"I know, dude." Kid sighed, "But we're all just trying to help you... Well the Team is helping Dick Grayson you. Just let us handle this and go home... or I'll tell Bats." Kid smiled folding his arms.
"You wouldn't." Robin said causally.
"Go on, try me." Kid Flash pushed.
Robin narrowed his eyes angrily for a moment before he sighed. "Okay fine, I'll go. You've made me see the error of my ways," Robin said sounding defeated, then he smiled and his voice turned sarcastic. "But have fun dealing with the other creeps. "Robin nodded towards the guys in the black they had just tired up.
"I could have handled them on my own. I had everything under control." Kid said before sighing again. "Look, just go home okay, Dick. I just don't want to see my best pal get hurt by some fool."
"Thanks, K.F… and I really am sorry." Robin said softly.
"For what?" but as soon as Kid had finished what he was saying, Robin smashed a small gas pellet at Kid Flash's feet. Robin held his cape over his mouth as a gas cloud rose up from the floor.
Kid Flash breathed in the gas, not knowing and confused about what was going on. His knees fell from under him and he sank to the floor. He started coughing before being overwhelmed by the gas and collapsing forward to the floor. The gas cleared quickly and Robin removed his cape away from his mouth and looked down at Kid Flash.
"Sorry Wally, but I need to do this on my own." Robin moved Kid Flash out the way, making sure he was safe from any fighting that may head his way. "Plus I cannot put you in anymore danger." And with that Robin left Wally behind the stage. After double checking that the men in black he and Kid Flash had dealt with were tied up tightly, so they wouldn't get away, Robin scanned the room again looking for the rest of the Team.
That's when he spotted something in the far corner. As he focused on it he soon realized it was the man in the wheel chair he had seen earlier. Robin guessed that he had been hiding really well when K.F. had search the place for any hiding guests and ended up missing the guy. Robin knew he had to get the man out, even if that meant he didn't get to fight.
No one, not even Batman, seemed to notice Robin as he ran across the room to the man in the wheel chair. The Team and all the Justice League members were too busy to notice him; they all seemed to be deeply in tuned with the fight.
The man in the wheel chair didn't notice Robin either as he ran over to him. He seemed preoccupied in all the fighting that was going on around him.
"Sir? I need to get you out of here. It's too dangerous." Robin said as he neared the man in the wheel chair. The man turned his head and looked at Robin. He seemed a little surprised when he saw Robin next to him.
Robin notice the man was only able to move his head, neck and left shoulder and arm. He could only turn the chair around using a small metal joy stick on the left hand arm rest, his right hand lay in his lap not moving.
As the man turned his chair around, Robin couldn't shake that feeling that he knew the man but he still had trouble trying to remember who he was. The only logical thing that came to his mind was that he must have met this man when he was 9 or 10 at one of the first fundraisers he went to with Bruce.
A smile covered the man's face and a sense of joy seemed to fill his eyes as well as a tear or two that suddenly built up in the corner of the man's eyes. Robin lightly shook his head, clearing his mind of any thoughts and started to walk closer to the man. He had to get this man outside to safety.
"Look at you, Richard, my word how you have grown. You're clearly not a kid any more, are you?" the man said in a deep rough voice, he seemed pleased to see The Boy Wonder.
"It's Robin." Robin said calmly, ignoring the man and trying hard not to give away how startled he was about the man knowing his real name.
The man just smiled back for a short moment before sighing sadly. "You really don't remember me do you, Dick?" the man asked looking at Robin as the Boy Wonder narrowed his eyes at hearing himself being called Dick while he was Robin. This guy knew who he was and it was unsettling.
Robin was scolding himself big time on the inside for not realizing who this guy was sooner. His emotions had gotten the better of him and Bruce would have his head if he knew.
The man sitting in the wheelchair before him was the every man who wanted him dead. The man who wanted to destroy his life, but there was no way he would let that happen a second time in his life.
"You're the guy who sent that message to Justice League."
"You've become quite the detective, Dick." The man pointed out.
"Who are you?!" Robin demanded furiously as the guy said his name again. Robin's anger boiled inside, he was getting impatient. This man had been making his life a living hell for the past eight hours, the day before the anniversary of his family's murder, Robin had enough of torture, and he wanted answers.
"Now is that anyway to speak to a person? Let alone a disabled family member. If your father was still with us, he would have scrubbed your mouth out with soap. You should remember when I did the same thing to your cousin John or have you forgotten him too?" The man in the wheel chair said bitterly.
"U-Uncle Rick?" Robin stuttered, his eyes widen and his body froze up, he was unable to move. The Boy Wonder couldn't believe what he was hearing; this couldn't be the man who wanted him dead. "I-I-I..."
"I was released, Dick. No thanks to that good for nothing Bruce Wayne," Rick groaned. "He was paying off the doctors at the hospital in order to keep me locked up and away from you."
"I remember wanting to stay with you." Dick said in a small voice, his eyes full of confusion and disbelief as memories ran though his mind. "You told me to go with Bruce. You said it was a home you couldn't give me."
"I did at first but it's been five years, Dick. After 18 months of rehab the doctors told me I was fit to leave and live on my own again. I wanted you back in my life. But when it came time for me to leave the doctors changed their minds." Suddenly anger fired up in Rick Grayson's eyes. "They wouldn't let me leave. Then I couldn't understand why you weren't coming to visit me anymore. I soon found out Bruce Wayne was stopping you from seeing me and he had my doctors on his pay roll." Rick Grayson paused for few moments, he was lost in some dark thought. "I've read the newspapers, his reputation as playboy wasn't doing him any favors, and he wanted you as his charity case. No better way for the high and mighty to look better than taking in an orphan boy with nowhere to go. Billionaire Playboy Bruce Wayne Takes in Orphan Circus Boy, Bruce Wayne: An Orphan Circus Boy's White Knight. Before I knew it they were moving me to another hospital in another city."
"I asked Bruce to move you. I thought it was for the best." Robin admitted, feeling guilty and disheartened.
"You were a nine year old boy who just watched his family die before his eyes. Bruce Wayne manipulated you!" Rick Grayson said firmly, as he gestured to Dick's attire.
"He didn't." Robin said shaking his head.
His uncle just ignored him. "It was a few months after that Gotham's Dark Knight had himself a partner. I must admit it took me a while to realize it was you out there fighting criminals, even after Batman and Robin: The Boy Wonder had captured Tony Zucco. Bruce Wayne endangered your life the moment he took you in, let alone every time you put on that costume. I blame myself for this." Rick Grayson sighed miserably.
"It's not your fault, Uncle Rick." Robin said, he couldn't let his uncle blame himself for him becoming Robin. "Bruce didn't force this on me, I choose it. Together Bruce and I brought Tony Zucco and his men in."
"My darling wife and son... my brother, your parents; they were murdered and you had a chance to avenge our family and you let the man go."
"Tony Zucco is in jail where he belongs. By the time he gets out his life will pretty much be over."
"He belongs in hell!" Rick Grayson yelled, before his took a deep breath in and slowly let it out, calming himself down. "You belong with me, Dick. With family, but before we can be a family again we first need to kill Tony Zucco."
Robin's body froze up on him again. It was wrong to kill someone, even the ones who have killed. It would mean coming down to their level. It wasn't right. Robin couldn't understand why his uncle wanted this, he knew he was still hurting, but never did he think his uncle's anger would go this deep.
"I'm sorry, Uncle Rick. I love you, but I won't." Robin said, tears building up in his eyes. Rick Grayson looked at Robin, he didn't seem the least bit surprised at what Robin had just said. He knew Robin would say that, but that didn't mean anything to him.
"I want you with me when I kill him. This is the only way we can be a family again, Dick. Don't you want that?"
"Yes, but not like this. What Zucco did was immoral and unforgivable, but nobody should die like that. Nobody."
"He killed our family in cold blood!"
"And is what you're planning to do any better?! Don't sink to his level." Robin paused for a moment, trying to collect his thoughts and not let his emotions get to him anymore. When Robin spoke again his voice had changed to a soft plea, "Please. I beg you, Uncle Rick. Don't go through with this." Every fiber of Robin's of body was praying that his uncle would change his mind.
Rick Grayson turned his chair about, Robin watched him carefully as he did. "I will kill him, Dick. Why should he live when our loved ones are gone?"
"I did this." Robin whispered to himself as tears built up behind his mask. Guilt, hurt, shock and fear flooded his insides as he stood there, his heart breaking. He knew his uncle would never be the same after that night, but never in a million years did he ever believe he would turn into a criminal that would become a concern for the Justice League, because the pain and grief of losing his family had become too much to bare.
Robin couldn't move, his body was numb. So many things running through mind, unable to think clearly, unable to realize the situation happening around him. He did not even notice five men dressed in black and carrying guns approach him and his uncle.
One of the five men wasn't wearing a helmet, this man causally walked over to Rick Grayson's side while the others hurried over as if following orders. The man without the helmet had the same colour hair as Wally. He wore dark sunglasses; he was a slightly short then the other men and wore a black and dark mahogany Kevlar vest and black gloves, showing his well-built arms.
Suddenly the sleeveless redhead pushed Robin down onto his knees at his uncle feet, then pointed his gun at the back of his neck. Robin didn't look up, he just knelt there too numb by his feelings to move.
"I do need him alive, O'Neil." Rick Grayson pointed out, as he looked around the room.
"We should leave, sir." O'Neil said in a handsome thick Irish accent as they watch Batman fight across the room. "While The Batman is busy."
Rick Grayson nodded and O'Neil raised two fingers and gestured for the men around him to move out. Two men grabbed Robin by his forearms and pulled him to his feet, before pushing him forward to get him to walk.
O'Neil covered the men who had Robin as he followed them to the center of the room watching the Justice League carefully, particularly Batman.
"Stop!" O'Neil growled angrily. The men in front of him stopped as O'Neil walked around them and came to a stop in front of Robin, who was still looking down at the ground, like he had given up.
"Almost forgot." O'Neil smirked as he reached for Robin's utility belt. At that moment Robin broke out of his daze, realizing what O'Neil was about to do.
Robin's head snapped up, his eyes narrowed angrily as he bared his teeth and groaned angrily. O'Neil's eyes widened in shock as Robin broke free from the grip the two men who had hold of him. He lunged at O'Neil, but Robin dropped to the ground at the last minute and slid between O'Neil legs.
"Get back here!" O'Neil growled, turning around and pointing his gun at Robin, suddenly one of the men behind O'Neil fired a shot. Robin cried out in pain as the bullet buried its self into his left arm.
"Grayson wants Robin alive!" O'Neil shouted as he turned around and shot the man who had just injured Robin. More men arrived as O'Neil barked out orders, it was clear the men were O'Neil's and they were Rick Grayson's hired help.
Batman just used his bat-cuffs to chain up the two guys he had been fighting when he heard a gun fire followed by a familiar cry then Robin's name being yelled out, he turned to see Robin holding his left arm, blood running through his fingers and down his arm.
"ROBIN!" Batman called out.
Robin turned when he heard Batman call out his name. He looked at his mentor and Batman could see the hurt, anger and confusion on Robin's face. He was asking Why?
All of a sudden Robin fell to the ground. Batman's eyes widen in horror as he watched the boy's body collapse to the floor. Anger raged through him as he saw O'Neil standing next to the Boy Wonder, with his gun positioned the wrong way in his hands, having just struck Robin on the back of his with the butt of his gun.
"Hope I haven't missed all the fun." Flash said as he entered the ball room and started looking around. He had only half scanned the room when he heard Batman call out Robin's name. Flash looked over at Batman and then over to what he was looking at on the other side of the room.
As fast as he could, Flash broke into a run towards the Boy Wonder hoping that could get to him before that blow could. Flash thought he had made it just in the nick of time as he raced to Robin across the room but when he reach the other side where Superman, Martin Manhunter, Aqualad, Superboy and Artemis were Flash realized he wasn't fast enough.
Robin had a small but deep gash on the low part of his head, from where O'Neil had struck him with his gun. Robin started to come around, he could feel the warm blood running down his neck, and then room started to spin and shake, kind of like an mini earthquake.
"You okay, kid?" Flash asked as he knelt down beside Robin looking at him, suddenly calling Robin kid reminded him of Wally and he looked up and scanned the room. "Robin, where's Wally?" Flash asked, sounding a little concerned.
Robin looked up but not at Flash, he looked across the room to where he had moved Kid Flash. Flash followed Robin's eyes and saw Kid Flash lying on the ground by the stage.
"I had knocked him out, Flash. He should be waking up soon." Robin quickly said rubbed the side of his head, near his wound, hoping to relieve the pain, but nothing.
"You stay with Robin. "J'onn said to Flash, "Connor and I will go and check on Kid Flash."
"Thanks, J'onn." Flash said. Both Superboy and J'onn turned and headed for the stage.
The Justice League was doing well, by now most of O'Neil's men had been dealt with. Most were tied up or knocked out, a few had made a break for it after being sent through a broken window.
O'Neil was arguing with Rick Grayson, both extremely angry Robin was back in the clutches of the Justice League. Seeing that they couldn't defeat the League O'Neil signaled for his men to retreat. The men backed off, then they all started climbing back up the ropes to the roof leaving their knocked out and tied up comrades to their own demise as some of them yelled out for help.
As the men retreated O'Neil and Rick Grayson stayed on the ground and continued to argue about something, but Rick Grayson had the final word as O'Neil nodded unhappily. Both men then looked across the room at Robin as Batman made his way over to his partner.
"As Bruce Wayne has failed to return my nephew to me," Rick Grayson called out. "I will be keeping my promise, until I have my nephew back, but for now I'll leave you with a parting gift." Rick Grayson said and as he finished talking O'Neil reached into his pocket and pulled out a hand grenade.
Suddenly Robin was on his feet so fast that he surprised Flash and nearly knocked him over. Robin pulled his grappling gun out of his belt as he ran and shot it into the air, it hooked onto the roof above and away from the bad guys in black as they climbed up and on the roof. Robin pressed a button on his grappling and it started to pull him up and he swing across the room, hoping to stop O'Neil from releasing the bomb.
"Robin! NO!" Batman cried out. Rick Grayson smiled and the Boy Wonder flew through the air towards them.
"Sir?" O'Neil asked, looking down at him sitting in the wheel chair. Rick Grayson watched his nephew fly through the air, he remembered back to the days when he's whole family was still alive and they had the time of their lives doing what they did best. Being the main act at Haley's Circus, The Flying Grayson's, performing their amazing acts from the top of the circus tent, high above the crowd and without a net.
"The Flying Grayson's are dead." Rick spoke softly. Reminding himself that the Dick Grayson he once knew was gone, placed by Robin. "By all means O'Neil, have some fun. We can wait another day. Tomorrow is a significant day after all." As a helicopter hovered above and dropped lines down for O'Neil, Rick Grayson and two others remaining, who both quickly grabbing the lines and connecting them to Rick Grayson's wheelchair.
Robin saw O'Neil smiling as he pulled the pin out of the grenade and before Robin could react to the sight of the grenade, it was heading right for him. Robin let go of his grappling gun and started to run across the ballroom fast, but the grenade was quicker. It exploded and a large cloud of fire and smoke suddenly rushed into the air.
The Boy Wonder was sent flying from the blast, the Team and the Justice League all ducked for cover.
Superman pushed Aqualad to the ground in front of him and shielded him from the blast and the heat of the explosion, as Green Arrow dorve on top of Artemis pushing her down by the fountain to protect her. Martian Manhunter ducked for cover beside the stage next to Kid Flash, unfortunately for Kid Flash, Connor had to shove him back down as he started to come around and threw himself over Manhunter and Kid Flash. Batman shoved Flash behind an up turned table and raised his cape to shield them both.
The ballroom was a disaster. For a small bomb it had made a huge mess, tables and chairs had been sent across room. The remaining windows that were still in one piece from the fight had now been smashed from the force. Plants and tables cloths were on fire and so were some of the tables and chairs that weren't broken, plates and glasses were in pieces and the stage had collapsed.
It took a few long minutes for the severe heat and flying debris to pass before everyone could get up and brush themselves off. They went to check on each other making sure everyone was okay, but no one was quicker than Batman to move. Flash was right behind Batman helping him look for Robin, but also looking towards the stage for his nephew.
Suddenly the stage moved and the planks of wood and metal support beams started to rise up like something was moving from under it.
Flash ran over to help pulling away some of the rumble, then Green Arrow followed Artemis over as she rushed over to lend a hand. Connor suddenly stood up with a large support beam on his back and groaned as he lifted it up and throw it across the room.
"Is everyone okay?" Flash asked, helping him out of the hole they had made in the rumble.
"I think so." Connor said reaching back down into the hole and pulling out J'onn, Flash helped but then Green Arrow took over so Flash and Artemis could pull an unconscious Wally out.
Wally's mask had been ripped away but Artemis manage to grab his goggles, which only had a few scratches on them. Wally started to come around when Artemis and Flash pulled him out and stood him on his feet. His eyes opened and he leaned against his uncle for support and looked around the room.
"Um... what did I miss?" he asked confused and dazed.
"Uncle J'onn!" M'gann cried in horror when she flew into the ballroom with Black Canary and Red Tornado right behind her. J'onn was being supported by Green Arrow and Superboy, M'gann landed right in front him and she wrapped her arms around her uncle.
"I am fine, M'gann." J'onn said reassuring his niece. M'gann pulled back and smiled at her uncle before looking at Superboy.
I don't know how to thank you, Connor. You saved my Uncle J'onn. Megan thanked. Connor was smiling on the outside, nobody saw that loving look on each other's face.
They all headed towards the fountain by the main door (which was still surprisingly in one piece, with most of its water), and found Aqualad sitting in the fountain cooling down.
"Are you alright?" Red Tornado asked in his robotic voice looking down at Aqualad.
"Yes, however I believe Robin is not." Kaldur said grimly looking over at Batman and Superman, everyone looked across the room and saw Batman and Superman serching for Robin.
Superman was scanning the room with his x-ray vision searching under the rubble and Batman was moving tables out the way, searching intensely for his young partner hoping that Rick Grayson had not grabbed him before they could get to him.
"No." Kid said in disbelief, as he remembered how he blacked out in the first place. All Wally was trying to do was to prevent this from happening but he knew that Robin would go ahead anyway. Though he still felt responsible for what had happen, he should have seen that Robin would try and stop him and he should have remembered that too, so he could have stopped him in the first place.
"Are you alright, Kid? I'm going to go and help Bats." Flash asked looking down at Kid and seeing his face.
"Wait, I'm coming too." Wally puffed getting to his feet; he got up to fast and lost his balance. Flash stepped forward to catch his nephew but Artemis was quicker than he was.
"Oh no you don't." Artemis said firmly, as she forced Wally to sit back down on the side of the fountain. "You're low on energy, you'll most likely pass out again and I doubt Superboy wants to drag your sorry butt back into the bio-ship, because I sure am not!"
Wally and Artemis started to argue and Flash smiled, before walking away from them. "He's in good hands." Green Arrow smiled, as Flash walked passed him, Black Canary and J'onn.
"I know," Flash smiled as he looked back at his nephew arguing with Artemis, "I just wish he knew that."
"He will. They both will... in time." Black Canary was smiling too.
"Batman! Over here, I found him." Superman called. Everybody stopped what they were doing to look across the room.
Batman hurried over to where Superman was now lifting up a large piece of cement, he chucked it aside like a rag doll and then moved a table out the way. Robin lay on his back and he wasn't moving but he was breathing. Superman knelt down beside the Boy Wonder and Batman did too on his other side and placed a hand on Robin's head.
"Robin." Batman said he's voice was toneless. "Robin, can you hear me? Clack, can you-"
"Already done. He's got a bullet to his left arm, a few broken ribs, I think his left lung has collapsed and a fractured skull as well, but I'm not a doctor, Bruce." Superman said quietly as Flash came whizzing over to see if he could help.
"B-B-Bruce?" Robin groaned softly, the Boy Wonder was coming around.
"It's alright, Dick. You're going to be fine." Batman said compassionately, as he removed Robin's cape from his body and pressed it against the back of the Boy Wonder's head to try and stop the bleeding.
"He's lost a lot of blood." Superman pointed out.
"He needs medical attention, now." Batman said the looked up at Flash, "Take him to the Batcave. I'll join you shortly."
"Yeah, anything." Flash said at once, wanting to help.
Superman moved aside, and Flash bent down and carefully picked Robin up. Flash stood and Batman walked over to them and made sure Robin's cape was pressing hard against the back of his head and Flash's arm to try and stop the bleeding. Flash then he nodded letting Batman know he understood what he had to do and all so to let Batman know Robin would be fine, then with a flash they were gone, leaving behind gust of wind and a large pool of blood.
"We will find Rick Grayson, Bruce, and then he'll have to answer to what he's done." Superman said firmly trying to comfort Batman, well in away.
All the members of the League came over leaving the Team sitting on the fountain by the door, wondering what was going to happen next.
"How are you feeling, J'onn?" Superman asked, seeing to look of exhaustion on the Martian's face.
"Ready for anything. Thanks to Superboy."
"Yes, well..."Superman said catching him off gruad. "He's... He's been trained by the best." Superman said gesturing to Black Canary, Red Tornado and Batman who was in deep thought and with his back to the League.
"So, what's our next move?" Green Arrow asked changing the subject and looking at Batman's back. "Bats?"
Everyone looked at Batman but he said nothing, so Superman stepped forward. "You, J'onn and I will try and track down Rick Grayson. Black Canary can you and Red Tornado see the Team back home safely?"
"No." Batman said finally turning around and facing the League. "The Team is to stay at Mount Justice tonight for their own safety... I under estimated Rick Grayson tonight and for that Robin is paying the price with his life. Rick Grayson will go after the Team, they'll be safer at the mountain."
Nobody argued with Batman, especially not right now with Robin in the condition he was in, plus they knew he was right, the Team was in danger. The League knew that Team could look after him themselves but they were young and despite all the training they had done so far, they still had a lot to learn.
"Understood, Batman. J'onn, Arrow and I will still track Rick Grayson down. You should head home." Superman said turning to Batman, who nodded understanding Superman's plan. Green Arrow and the Martian turned and headed to the fountain to let their nieces know they were leaving and that they were to stay with the rest of the Team.
"I mean it, Bruce." Superman spoke softly, "Go home, we can handle the rest." Batman nodded once. Superman then turned and walked over to the Team and up to Superboy where J'onn was thanking him for saving his life.
"J'onn's right. You did well." Superman said, trying to sound proud but was having a hard time of it and he then placed a hand on Connor's shoulder, before turning and leaving with Green Arrow and Martian Manhunter.
Connor stood there next to M'gann, a little confused and stunned at what had just happen, when Wally walked up to him, who was being supported by Artemis.
"Oookay," Wally said, watching Superman leave, "That must have been awkward."
Artemis instantly punched Wally in the shoulder making him groan in pain before saying, "What was that for?!"
"For being rude."
"What? I just pointing out a fact." Wally stated, Artemis just ignored him this time, because she was looking over at Batman, Black Canary and Red Tornado.
"Do you think Robins' going to be okay?" She asked.
"I'm not sure, but perhaps we should ask." Aqualad said jumping out of the fountain, and all five of them made their way over to the remaining members of the league. Black Canary, Tornado and Batman turned and faced the Team when they walked up to them, they could see they were tried, worn out, they needed rest.
The look in Connor's eyes said he wanted to fight some more, but even a kryptonian got tired and warn out from time to time. M'gann looked fine, she hadn't been fighting O'Neil's men as much, she had been looking for Dick Grayson. Aqualad was feeling better after the dip he took in the fountain, the heat from the explosion had taken a lot out of him but the water had help, however he still looked as tired as Artemis. Artemis had a few bruises and was tired too but nobody was worn out as Kid Flash. Wally had manage to get all the guests out safely, but being knocked out twice; once by Robin with a gas pellet and once by Connor with force, he needed food and looked like he was going to collapse at any moment, but was more worried about Robin then eating.
"Will Robin be okay?" M'gann asked as she and the Team reached Black Canary, Red Tornado and Batman.
"Is that Robin's blood?" Aqualad asked nodding to the large pool of blood on the floor.
Batman didn't turn around to look, he didn't really want too. He knew the blood was there, he had seen it when Superman had pointed it out after he cleared all the rubble away from Robin.
"He'll be fine, given time." Batman said, his voice toneless.
"What was he doing here anyway?" Artemis asked looking at the Team, Wally looked away and at the ground, luckily nobody noticed.
"Disobeying orders." Batman said firmly and sounding discontented about it, more then he should.
M'gann turned her attention back to Robin's health, when she noticed another pool of blood not too far away. That was from when Flash had rescued Robin from Rick Grayson and O'Neil, where he had sat Robin down in the ground, before Robin had gotten up again.
"Robin's lost a lot of blood, I am really worried about him." her voice was full of concern, this made Batman look at the other pool of blood M'gann was still looking at.
"M'gann's right. That's too much blood." Wally said grimily, looking at both pools of blood, he was doing the math in his head, it wasn't looking good for Robin.
"Robin's been through worse... Believe me. He is young, strong and healthy, he'll pull though this." But then the caring side of Batman disappeared, "And this is not even the worst case of what could happen when you disobey orders! Robin and I will be having a strong word about his actions tonight, and he will not go unpunished. For now head back to the cave. Debeifing on tonight's mission can wait untill tomorrow." Batman ordered and turned to Red Tornado.
"They are all to stay at the cave tonight, as I said before. If you hear anything from Superman-"
"You'll be the first to know." Canary said cutting Batman off, "Go. You should be with him right now."
"We will see the Team back safely to the cave. There is nothing more that can be done tonight. You are needed elsewhere." Tornado spoke robotically, before ordering the Team outside to the bio-ship and after Batman's lecture on orders the team obeyed without another word, followed by Red Tornado.
Batman turned to Black Canary. "I want you to contact Artemis and Wally's parents and let them know why they're not coming home tonight or tomorrow, but don't tell them the truth. Tell them extra training or something, I'm sure Barry and Oilver would agree." Batman said.
"And Orin?"
"I'm guessing he would have heard the news by now, but contact him just in case." Canary nodded at Batman orders.
Batman grabbed his grappling gun from his utility belt; he had just aimed his arm up towards the roof and was just about to release the gun's hook, when Black Canary placed a Batman shoulder.
"If you need to anything at all, I'm here. If you both need to talk-" Black Canary cut herself off when Batman's eyes narrowed, before speaking.
"I'll send Robin, when he's recovered." Batman released the line and it hooked to the roof, just after he finished speaking. Batman then went flying up to the ceiling and through the hole in the glass roof and was gone.
End of Chapter Seven: Robin's Explosive Reunion.
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