With the mentors:
"We need to make Klarion change them back!" Superman said.
"Duh" said Zatanna, "The problem is that we don't know where he is, or how to even get him to change them back"
They all looked over at Batman. He was the world's greatest detective; he can figure out where he is, so that wouldn't be too much of a problem. He was also pretty scary, so he might be able to scare Klarion to change the team back if he couldn't learn his weakness.
"I'm going to need help to find him and make him undo his spell" Batman said.
The room was silent for five minutes. It took that long to comprehend the bat admitting that he needed help. Flash spoke up first, still not believing what he just heard.
"This must be an impostor!Or a robot! Quick, J'onn check to make sure it's really him!"
"It is" Martian Manhunter replied.
"Did you mind scan him?"
"No, but he was with us when we viewed the team's memories. If he were anyone or anything different, I would have picked up on it then"
The room was silent again. Everyone still wondering why, even if Batman knew he needed help, he would admit it.
Batman hadn't said anything else. He was waiting for everyone to finish processing what he said. Even if he did think they were overreacting.
Finally, Superman said something to break the silence.
"Okay, what do you need help with?"
"In order to find him, I will need the team's help, despite their current state"
"You do realize that even at their real age, they're just teenagers, right? And aside from Robin, none of them are trained detectives. The league would be better equipped to-"
Batman cut him off.
"While it is true that they are only teenagers at their real age, the team has dealt with the members of the light more than we have recently. They may know more about Klarion and how to beat him then we do."
Green Arrow decided to join the conversation.
"Let me guess. You're going to take them with you to fight Klarion, and possibly the whole light, too"
"No, for that I will need the league's help"
"And mine?" Zatanna asked, hopeful.
"No, you are going to stay here with Red Arrow to watch the team and keep them out of trouble"
She was annoyed by this. They didn't need her to help Roy. He could clearly handle the kids just fine.
Meanwhile, with Roy, who can clearly handle all the kids just fine:
Everything is going just as well as it had been since the incident started.
"Artemis, Wally, stop fighting!"
That is, not well at all. At. All.
"No! He ate my ice cream! He needs to pay!" she shouted.
"It was delicious and worth it!" Wally shouted back.
Roy should have expected this. After all, Wally needed to eat a lot to stay healthy. He just eats whatever is in range out of habit when he's hungry. This time, it happened to be Artemis's ice cream.
She wouldn't stop fighting unless Wally is punished in some way she thinks is reasonable. And Roy had limited options there. Wally was already grounded for dying the pool and Kaldur pink, and Artemis had made clear that grounding him for longer wasn't "reasonable".
So what was, you may ask?
Apparently, taking his dinner away was the only "reasonable" thing to do in the situation. But he couldn't do that because Wally had a fast metabolism, and Roy didn't want to get chewed out for not feeding him.
Only Kaldur tried to help him, and he had a broken nose now. Everyone else was standing around and watching the fight while eating their ice cream, cheering them on.
"Mess him up good, Awtemis!" Robin shouted.
"Robin, be quiet! Artemis stop attacking Wally! I'll get you more ice cream! And Wally, apologize! Please, just listen to me!" Roy shouted.
His words went unheard. He expected nothing less. He was wondering if Robin had any more handcuffs with him. But Zatanna probably took them all. He would just have to ask her where she put them.
"Okay! Enough is enough! Stop fighting right now!"
"Or what?!" They both yelled at him.
He really had had enough of this. He walked up to them, grabbed Artemis by her forearm, and dragged her away form Wally.
This should keep them from fighting he thought.
"Ha! Artemis is in trouble! Artemis is in trouble!" Wally sang.
"Don't think you'll get off so easy, Wally. You're grounding's been extended to a month. And you, Artemis, are grounded for a week!"
"You're not our mom!" She shouted.
"And what would your moms do in this situation?" Roy asked.
Artemis and Wally just stared at him, each other, and him again, thinking. Then they were both a bit more agreeable.
"Sounds like a fair punishment, wouldn't you agree, Wally?"
"Yes, very fair indeed!"
Or a lot more agreeable.
The rest of the team(with the exception of Kaldur) looked mildly disappointed that the fight was over. Kaldur looked mostly relieved. And Roy read somewhere that kdis fought less if they had something to do, and that sounded like a good idea right now.
"Okay, now that that's settled, what do you guys want to do?" Roy asked.
Wally and Robin suggested video games, Artemis and M'gann wanted to watch a movie, Superboy wanted to watch static, and Kaldur didn't care what they did. Roy did not want another fight, so he came up with a compromise.
"First, we'll watch a movie of Wally and Robin's choice, then we'll play a video game of Artemis and M'gann's choice, then Superboy can watch static while we play a non-video game. Fair?"
"Why can't M'gann and I choose the movie? It was our suggestion!"
"Yes, but if I let you two choose the movie, you'll watch 'Twilight', and Robin and Wally hate that movie, and if they choose the game, it'll be something too violent for kids your age. I am not breaking up three fights today. Understood?"
Artemis and M'gann nodded, but Robin and Wally still didn't understand.
"We're not actually kids, Roy! We're teenagers! We can play whatever we want!" Wally shouted.
"You still think like kids. I don't want to risk you guys getting scared or something. Especially Robin, since he's four now. And his mentor is Batman. So, I ask again, Understood?"
Everyone nodded this time. Roy spoke up again.
"We shouldn't start until your mentors are finished discussing what to do about what we learned in your memories"
Everyone nodded again.
It wasn't a long wait. Zatanna came in less than a minute after he finished speaking. And she didn't have a very happy look on her face.
"Batman needs to speak with you guys. He thinks it'll help him find Klarion" She said.
"Awe you okay Zatanna?" Robin asked, "You wook upset"
"I'm fine, Robin. Just a little annoyed" She replied.
"At what?"
"Batman said he wants to see you. You shouldn't keep him waiting" she said, avoiding the question.
The team left the room, but Roy stayed behind to talk to Zatanna. If Robin, who was close to her, noticed something wrong, something was probably wrong.
"Just tell me what's wrong, Zatanna"
"Nothing! Like I said, I'm just annoyed"
"By what?"
"Batman won't let me help fight Klarion after we find him! Instead I have to watch the team with you!"
"Why does that annoy you?"
"He doesn't trust me! Instead of helping to fight Klarion, he gave me the easy job!"
"Not trust you? Batman's letting you watch Robin. I think he trusts you plenty. If anyone, he doesn't trust me to watch the team. Which, contrary to what you think, is actually pretty tough"
With the team and the mentors:
"Why isn't Zatanna with us? Isn't she on the team?" Wally asked.
"We've already talked to her. Now it's your turn" Flash answered.
"Our turn to what, exactly?" Conner asked.
"We just need to ask you a few questions. It'll help us find Klarion" Superman answered.
"Can't Zatanna use a spell to find him? She did when the world was split" M'gann asked.
"That time was different. She found him by locating the epicenter of a massive amount of mystical energy. Unless Klarion is using magic like that again currently, that method will not work" Her uncle answered.
The team didn't to understand most of that, but they took the answer anyway.
The members of the league let Batman ask most of the questions. He knew what they were looking for more than any of them.
Apparently, that was the places they fought Klarion, what his personality is like most of the time, and if he had any friends outside of the light he frequently contacts.
The team was surprisingly calm while they were being questioned(Probably because Batman was the one questioning them). They answered every question they could, even if they didn't know all the answers.
Batman had also been calmer than normal, mostly due to the fact that he was questioning kids.
"Final question: What is the best way to fight Klarion?"
He didn't expect them to answer that one, but it was worth asking since they had fought and beat him before.
"You need to go after the cat! It's how we fought him before!' Wally answered.
Batman let them go back to Roy and Zatanna, where they could release the energy that was building up throughout the questioning. They all ran away as fast as they could. Except for Robin, who was picked up by Wally.
Batman needed to talk with the rest of the league. He had an idea to find Klarion.
