Chapter 10: Three Talks with Two Bats and a Speedster

They arrived back at the Watchtower. There were several other Leaguers. When the Teams and the 3 Leaguers with them walked into the briefing room the Leaguers spotted Miss Martian's new uniform. She flew over to her uncle.

"Guess what happened on the mission," Miss Martian said, smiling with joy.

"M'gann, you are at your peak of telepathic-physical unity," Martian Manhunter said "I am so proud of you," and he hugged his niece.

"What happened?" Batman asked his former protégé.

"Not sure but I think M'gann found inner peace," said Nightwing.

"Are you anywhere closer to finding Wally?" Wonder Woman asked her protégé.

"I think we're closing in. Dark Eagle's pretty good with giving everyone a worthwhile job to do. Even when you're staying behind in the Bio-ship she makes it sound like it's important," said Wonder Girl.

"Oh, now I can see it," Archeress said "She's totally Wonder Woman in the future!"

"I become Wonder Woman?!" said Wonder Girl.

Archeress was about to say something but Speed Arrow covered her mouth.

"We've been revealing more about the future than we would like to say," said Dark Eagle, rubbing the back of her neck.

Wonder Girl smiled but her smile dropped when she saw the nervous look on Robin the Girl Wonder's face. The 2 girls looked at Zatanna. Nightwing and Dark Eagle started work on the information they got from the Byalian base. It was late so everyone was going to bed. Wonder Girl took Robin #5's arm and dragged her down a corridor.

Zatanna sat in the unfinished, but functioning, Cave rec-room. Wonder Girl and Robin #5 walked in.

"What the heck?" the Girl Wonder asked.

"Your friends don't know about your powers, do they?" Zatanna stated.

"Dark Eagle, Speed Arrow and Archeress do, K.F doesn't..." Robin #5 sighed "my parents... were assassins for the League of Shadows... my dad's in Arkem Asylum and my mom's in Belle Reve... I inherited my powers from my mom..." the Girl Wonder sniffed.

Wonder Girl put her arm around the Girl Wonder.

"I'm sorry," said Zatanna.

"It's okay," Robin 5.0 said "Please don't tell the Teams or the League,"

"We won't... but you should," said Zatanna.

"I'll maybe... possibly... tell the others on my Team... when we get back to the future... maybe," the Girl Wonder said "I just wish I didn't have powers... not my powers anyway,"

Zatanna patted Robin #5's back.

"It's okay, Robin... it's okay," the Magician said "I gotta go now. Bye you 2,"

Zatanna walked out of the room. Wonder Girl looked at Robin 5.0 in the eye.

"Do I really become Wonder Woman?" she asked.

The Girl Wonder sighed. She took her tablet out, tapped on it a few times and showed Wonder Girl.

The picture was of a woman with blonde hair that went halfway down her back was on it. She wore a costume like Diana's only her top was black with a yellow line over the chest and the bottom was yellow with black stars. She had black, knee-high, boots with yellow lines that went from the top to the toe of the boot. She had elbow-high, yellow, gloves that had a white line going from her middle finger to the top of the gloves and golden, metal, bands around half her lower arms. She had a yellow mask with a black outline around the edge and eyes, her eyes showing through. On her hip was a lasso, in her ears were black star earrings and on her head was a black tiara with a simple, yellow, star.

"That's you," said Robin #5 "In a few decades,"

"What's with the mask?" Cassie asked.

"Your secret identity is actually, kinda, famous, you're a fashion designer, so you started wearing a mask so no one could connect the dots," explained the Girl Wonder.

Dick and Zatanna walked out of the zeta-tube. Zatanna wanted to talk to her boyfriend about something.

"Dickie, can we talk?" Zatanna asked.

"Yeah, what about?" Dick asked.

"It's all this Wally business. How are you holding up?" the Magician asked.

"I'm good..." the Bat trailed off "I'm good,"

"Dick?" Zatanna said, quietly "Tell me the truth... now, please,"

Sapphire-blue eyes looked into neon-blue eyes as Dick silently pleaded with Zatanna to stop. Her neon-blue eyes stared into his, it pained her because she could see Dick's happy but extremely painful life in his eyes. He sighed and looked away.

"Sometimes it's like a curse," he said, finally "The Flying Graysons, Jason... Wally... and now we know Wally's alive! It's just..."

Zatanna took her boyfriend's hand in her's.

"Dickie... we will get him back and when he learns we're back together he'll make a comment about it taking his death for us to realize he was right and we hadn't stopped caring about each other," the Magician said, giving Dick's hand a reassuring squeeze.

Dick smiled at her, lent over and gently kissed her lips.

"What I ever do to deserve an asterous girl like you?" he said, smiling.

"Ah! The Dick-tonary words return," said Zatanna, smiling back "And a shorter list would be what you haven't done to deserve me,"

Dick laughed, suppressing his natural cackle. Zatanna lent into his side as they walked towards Dick's apartment building.

K.F sat on the sofa at the Allens. Iris sat next on a chair, slyly looking at him.

"So... K.F... how do you like the past?" she asked.

"Meh... it's okay. I prefer the future because our tech is way more crash," he said.

"You use 'crash' as an adjective like Bart does?" Iris said to the time-traveller "Do you say 'mode' to describe your mood, to?"

"Nah," said K.F "Bart's from 40 years in the future. I'm from just under 30, around 27ish,"

"I see... do we know each other in your future?" Iris asked, K.F looked at her "Sorry, for all the questions. The silence was killing me and I'm a T.V News reporter,"

"Yeah... we do... or we did until, about 2 months ago, you were diagnosed with..." K.F stopped talking and thought the rest of his sentence instead of speaking aloud "until you were diagnosed with dementia,"

"Diagnosed with what?" Iris asked, concerned.

"Never mind," K.F said, quickly "That's decades away, don't worry about it,"

Iris did worry but she pushed it aside and didn't ask again (and didn't mention it to Barry, either).

"So... what are your parents like?" Iris asked.

"Dad cleared off when I was 3. My mom's nice, she's cool with making me all the food I need because of my sped-up metabolism," said K.F.

"I'm sorry about your father," said Iris.

"Meh. I hardly remember the guy. He appeared when I was 13 but I slammed the door in his face," said K.F "A decision I don't regret,"

"Oh," said Iris "What's it like working with Speed Arrow and Archeress?"

"One down side! Archeress doesn't have super-speed like her brother, and he already has a quiver on his back, so I have to give her piggy-back rides to where the action is," said K.F "We're still working out the kinks in our partnership. She's only been Archeress for 7 months,"

Chapter 10 will probably have action in it! I'll try to make it exiting! PLEEEEEEEEASE read and review!