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Allies in Pink Poke-A-Dot Bows

Zoe Lawton was not a girl who liked being told what to do, she did not like being told her daddy was a bad man and therefore she was a bad girl, and she did not like people picking on her little sister Suchin, who was also a baby here. However, there was a problem, as she pulled her thick, tightly curled black hair up and inspected herself in the mirror; it was the nanite explosive in her neck.

But she was studying her chemistry hard to figure out a way around this problem.

The only problem was, she was ten and she was not an engineer. Minor issues she was working around, but trying to figure out the big words to be something smaller was difficult.

"No Su… come here," she sighed as she sat on her bed and her little sister came over. Zoe had never known about Suchin being her sister until she woke one morning with her then five year old sister there in the bed beside hers' two years ago and ordered to take care of the younger. Su and she didn't look alike; at all, but Zoe had no cares about that.

Suchin looked Asian, but with dark skin and a bit curlier hair, she also had their daddy's eyes. Zoe looked like their daddy, dark skin, dark hair, dark eyes, and similar features; her mama used to curse her having her daddy's nose and mouth before mama had died.

Carefully Zoe braided Su's thinner hair and she smiled at her baby sister who was humming there, blissfully unaware of the nanite explosive in her neck.

"Kay Su," she smiled. "Let's get breakfast."

The doors were opened, everything about this place appeared to be a normal school, and that was the creepy thing to Zoe. Except, the students, the kids here were powerful, cunning, and the children of some of the world's most dangerous criminals, none were to be trusted. Except Wally.

Wally West, student 49850006, was the first boy Zoe had met and felt she could trust. Wally reminded her of her of the boys from her neighborhood. He had a wild streak, mixed with a bit of trouble, and good heart. Also, he was smart, and after a year of surveilling him she had decided to recruit him to help her and Su bust out of here. Also, no one had any clue what Wally was doing here because he wasn't a villain's son or a meta; Wally was Wally, and he didn't belong here anymore than a pig at a banquet. He'd also become like a big brother to her and Su in the past year.

Zoe handed Su her tray as she went about collecting breakfast for the two of them before she turned and saw Wally walk by with a wink and she frowned as she led Su to what had become their table.

Her eyes flicked to the boy's dorm door when Wally tilted his head to it and her eyes narrowed on the two new boys she didn't recognize. The first was a gangly pale boy, kind face, squaring jaw, straight nose, big blue eyes, and messy black hair. The second was shorter than the first, he had tanned skin, sharp features, slightly crooked nose, a mouth that appeared to neither smile nor frown, and sharp green-blue eyes. Zoe cocked her head at Wally, Wally winked and nodded before he looked at his meal and she frowned.

So Wally was recruiting, she didn't know how to feel about that, or why he'd picked two of the most useless looking boys she'd ever looked upon. However, she trusted Wally and she would see where this went as she finished breakfast.

"Zoe? Who are the new boys? I've never seen them?" Su whispered as she finished her breakfast.

"I don't know, Su, yet," Zoe amended as she handed her seven year old sister a napkin and looked up when the school headmaster (WARDEN!) walked in and she glared at him as he went over the morning announcement and assignments for each class. Zoe was unimpressed to have the range again; she did not like guns, she was just a good shot though. However this didn't seem to matter as Wally was on track again, and he hated running.

Sighing she offered Su her hand as they exited the cafeteria and she walked Su to her first class, languages.

Zoe ran into Wally as they both made their way to the fields.

"What was that about?"

"I got us help," he whispered.

"Help?" she blinked.

"Yeah, the son of Superman and the son of Batman," he said lowly.

Zoe blinked as she thought about this before she nodded slowly. "Alright, you're sure?"

"With how Supes was crying, yeah," Wally nodded.

"Very well, we will use them, have you figured out the location of where we're being held?"

"No, but I'm gonna get detention again so I'll see what I can do."

"I'll create the diversion," she promised.

"Good, see you later Zoe," he smiled as he left her to mingle into his class and she slowly walked over to the other two boys in her group. Students 67920015 and 28730004.

"Hello," she greeted as she clasped her hands behind her back and looked both the boys over critically. She'd been here for four years, she wanted out and she wasn't going to have Wally's botched recruitment screw it up. "I'm student 13769002," she introduced.

"Tt," the tan one clicked his tongue and the other kid was looking nervous and like he was trying to hide behind his friend.

"I'm Zoe Lawton," she said lowly then and that seemed to gain the tanned boy's interest immediately.

"And what makes you think I believe you?" he asked just as softly.

"Because only the son of Batman could sound like that," she answered quietly and the boy blinked. He had really pretty eyes, she thought and smiled a bit as he nodded.

Dick walked out of his room and saw Jason shaking his head at a door with Titus sitting there with big soulful eyes. Jason looked at him when he approached and Dick was careful about approaching the younger man, he had a feeling Jason was a bit on edge today. Especially after the interrogation he'd received from Raven before leaving.

"Where's Raven?" he asked as he looked for her, she and Jason were usually close whenever they were together.

"In the abyss doing voodoo or something, I don't fucking know," Jason sighed as he leaned on the door tiredly. "How is it that no one kept track of Superbrat or the demon spawn?"

"We were busy, distracted, and I doubt he's missing he's probably at the Tower," Dick sighed. Damian wasn't so reckless as to run off, no, the baby bird was cunning and calculating. He might be a softy at heart, but Damian Wayne was a dangerous kid on the surface. Besides it wasn't likely that Damian wandered away from Raven and Jason. Little D was proving to be very attached to them, and if Dick didn't know better he'd have sworn Damian was going to play matchmaker with them.

"I'll ask Constantine if we can go there and check," Jason yawned.

"Won't the house just appear there, seems to work that way."

"Honestly, no, if we walked out the front door right now we're in bum fuck nowhere, at the Mill house, or we're in England, or somewhere, the House gets around, once left me in fucking Syberia," Jason rolled his eyes as he shoved his hands in his pockets.

"Really?"

"Yeah, first escape attempt from Zed," Jason rolled his eyes.

"And you landed yourself in a Russian prison, idiot," Zed yawned and Dick smirked.

"Yeah well I had no fucking clothes!"

"If you had just stayed put and trusted us," she started.

"Have you seen you? Constantine looks like he's on a life long bender, Chas is a fucking bear, and you're the worst of them," Jason snapped.

"Jason," Zed sighed and Dick grinned.

"So I'm not the only who gets headaches dealing with him?" Dick mused.

"He's a massive headache."

"I cook so I'd be careful about the insults," Jason warned lowly.

"Constantine is looking for Damian and Jon, however I asked Black Orchid, we didn't find them, she's still looking, there's other rooms, even I'm not allowed in that they might have gotten sucked into, but it's looking like they aren't here," Zed said.

Dick scowled, he didn't understand why this was happening. Damian never did something without reason and there's no way he'd go with Talia, not after Talia had declared him an inadequate heir. That manipulative bitch though might…

"Jay, you and Talia…"

"Dick I will murder you, painfully and slowly," Jason warned.

"No, I don't care about whatever you're hiding," Dick sighed. He did care, he wanted to know how to help Jason however he'd also found out being stubborn about this wasn't the way to go. Having Bruce's subtly with Jason was likely to an undesired effect. Mostly likely, Jason would disappear before they could stop him, so Dick was going to do as Raven had suggested and have patience with Jason and his reluctance. "But I was wondering if you could track her?"

"Yeah, what do you think I've been doing for six months!" Jason sarcastically stated.

"Jay, she… she might have Damian and Jon," he sighed and he saw his little brother stiffen.

"Well fuck," was all the younger said.

"Yeah," Dick agreed. There were no words to describe the shit storm this could be and frankly Dick didn't want to think about it. He wanted to locate Damian and Jon and go from there.

"Fuck! I hate you all," Jason snarled sourly.

"You love us," Dick countered. "So can you?"

"Yeah, with the right equipment, not my shit, or anything in the House," Jason answered.

"What do you need?"

"Well, that's the part you aren't going to like it," Jason answered.

"And what are you proposing?" Dick asked.

"Heard of Felicity Smoak?"

"Oh you've got to be kidding," Dick groaned as he rubbed his face over and dragged his hands through his hair.

"I'm not, Arrow, owes me, specifically Red X, a favor, not that he knows it was me, he hired me to steal something from Merlyn, shit went sideways, I fulfilled my contract and Arrow promised me a favor because I kind of saved Felicity; unintentionally," Jason said carefully.

"Bruce is not going to like this," Dick warned.

"You asked what I need, I need Felicity Smoak, she's got access to the Assassin systems last I heard, and she's the only one to do that," Jason said.

"Why didn't you just ask her where Talia was instead of whatever the hell it was you were doing?" Dick demanded.

"Because I might have needed that favor from Arrow later rather than sooner! Also, the man is a prick and I wanted the favor possibility looming over his head for a while. He deserved to worry about what favor I'd ask of him," Jason snapped.

Honestly, of all the people Jason seemed to meet in this world, he just wondered how it was Bruce hadn't known he was alive.

"I'll get us to Star City," Zed yawned as she walked off.

"Really Jay, of all the people? Queen?" Dick hissed.

"Guy is a bigger ass than Bruce," Jason agreed. Dick sighed then glared at him carefully as Jason scratched Titus's ears.

"Well, Arrow doesn't know our family is the Bats, so…"

"Like I'm telling that moron I'm alive and we have shit in common," Jason rolled his eyes. "I'd sooner chop my arm off."

"You have shit in common with Oliver Queen?" Dick asked.

"More than anyone would ever think, but if I ever turn into a colossal prick like him, shoot me."

Dick laughed. Dick mostly didn't like Oliver Queen for what he did to Roy, but that was a separate issue.

"But first let's check the Tower, then I'll cash in my favor with Queen and his girlfriend."

Damian looked the girl in his class over carefully and slowly nodded in response to her claim of him being Batman's son, which wasn't comforting as he folded his arms. She was taller than him, her thick curly black hair was pulled up in a pink poke-a-dot bow, her large dark eyes were sharp, and her smile polite. He didn't know if he liked her or disliked her yet, but there was something about her which commanded his attention and forced him to admit there was something dangerous about this girl.

"Excellent," she smiled a bit, and Jon was poking his ribs then.

"You must be Superman's son," she said easily.

"Uh… yeah," Jon nodded as he shyly looked the girl over.

"Zoe Lawton," she held out her hand and Jon tentatively took it.

"Jon," he said meekly.

"And you are?"

"Damian," he omitted because he wasn't as worried about her piecing who he was together as he was worried about the supposed nanite charges in him and Jon. Damian and Jon had received the rundown of what was going on with them this morning after leaving their room when they had been intersected by one JGJ who had looked surprisingly familiar to Damian with his red hair and blue eyes. Damian just couldn't figure out from where that man had looked familiar. No matter, the man had gleefully informed them that they were wired with nanite explosives which would detonate if tampered with, if they tried to escape, or just because JGJ felt like it. Jon's was also fused with kryptonite to kill him slowly if he tried anything. So, at this moment, there were more important things than his secret identity being revealed.

"Excellent, Robin, Superboy, I'm here to get us out of here, with my little sister Su, but I'm going to need your help," Zoe said softly as they walked with the kids.

"Where are we?"

"Wally's the better one with computers, we're trying to figure that out, we're not in Gotham, that's the only think we know for certain," Zoe said.

"How do you know?" Jon asked and Damian looked at his home city's skyline and sighed, it wasn't Gotham. It was an image like Gotham, and unless one was from Gotham they'd never know.

"No smog," he and Zoe answered in unison. There was a grungy feel to Gotham even at a distance, it was like Gotham was encloaked in an ever present cloud of grunge, dust, smoke, and pollution; it's what made it Gotham.

"Oh…" Jon said lamely. Damian rolled his eyes, Metropolis, city of the future, so clean and pretty, it would never be as horrifying as Gotham. Still, home was home, and this skyline was a pretty version of the Gotham skyline.

"So where are we?" Jon asked.

"Dunno," Zoe shrugged. "Wally and I have figured it to be an energy dome, a fly kid flew up and crashed into something up there, all the power was out for five minutes. The skyline was gone," she said.

"So this is a secret base of operations," Damian muttered. He didn't like this, but it wasn't so much about being trapped in the unknown as it was being trapped and not having a way to reach out to the Titans or the batfamily. Right about now would be a good moment to have help.

"We will first need to find out where we are," Damian said.

"Agreed Wally's on it, but we need a diversion, one they can't link to us despite the cameras," Zoe said.

"I believe Jon is best suited for this, I will handle the computers, how is Wally getting to them?" Damian asked.

There was a shout and he turned to see the boy he'd met as Wally in a fight with four other students.

"Detention, again," Zoe said.

"Why?"

"The boxes have computer mainframes in them and Wally's been slowly hacking into it," she hissed as the guards appeared and caught Wally who got in a few more good kicks and punches as he was dragged off. Damian blinked when Wally smirked and winked as he was literally dragged off and Zoe looked at him.

"All I have to do is get to a computer mainframe, and those are in the boxes?" Damian asked.

"Yes," she nodded.

"Very well," Damian said and turned to his Kryptonian friend who was just gaping at the fight.

"Jon," he said, the blue eyed boy looked at him. "I apologize," Damian said and pulled his first before he clocked Jon in the jaw and sent the taller boy toppling. Jon hit the ground and Damian lunged for him.

"What Was That For!?" Jon shouted, and Damian smirked as Jon winked at him. Damian and Jon had been sparring partners for a month so it was safe for him to move and not be killed by the too strong Kryptonian.

"Cry baby! Toughen up!" Damian ordered as he leapt for the floating kid, caught his foot and flipped up to land on his shoulders to land a solid blow which would knock a human out, to the temple.

Jon grabbed his ankle and threw him off, Damian flipped and landed neatly on his feet before he charged the Kryptonian. There was a burst of light and then a searing pain in Damian's body as he collapsed jolting and gasping for breath.

"28730004, to the box," a guard said and Damian felt himself lifted up and dragged away. He just focused on his breathing as he was dragged off and he saw Jon land beside Zoe who just blinked but smiled slightly as she nodded in understanding. Damian would for sure get the information about where they were before the end of the day. But right now it hurt to breath, his ribs felt like they'd been hit by a fiery train!

Bruce was up, he was worried, Selina was taking a shower and he changed as he slipped out to find his sons. Dick and Jason were talking and he softened seeing Jason and Dick appearing to get along. Now if only he could reach Jason.

"More than anyone would ever think, but if I ever turn into a colossal prick like him, shoot me," Jason ordered, Dick laughed. "But first let's check the Tower, then I'll cash in my favor with Queen and his girlfriend."

Bruce frowned at hearing Queen's name, he did not like the man anymore more than he liked Hal's loud mouth. However now he was curious about what Dick and Jason were discussing, and more about why his son held a favor with Queen.

"Where are Damian and Jon?" Bruce asked when he approached them, Damian's missing was a more pressing status at the moment than whatever else he may want.

"Morning Bruce, Damian and Jon aren't in the House as far we know, Zed said Black Orchid is checking the house over," Dick answered.

"Then what does Queen have to do with this?"

"Well the Mistress of Manipulation might have kidnapped Superbrat and Demon Spawn so first we're checking the Tower, if they aren't there then I'll call in that favor and get Smoak to tell me where Talia is," Jason shrugged.

"Felicity Smoak?" Bruce asked dryly. Oliver Queen was partnered with a very dangerous cyber hacker, Overwatch, who's skills bested those of Barbara, and Queen was possessive of the woman. It was a known fact in the League that Oliver would go to extremes for the woman.

"One in the same," Jason answered drayly.

"What'd you do to get a favor from Queen anyway?" Dick asked.

"I told you, I saved Felicity, as Red X, Oliver, and I quote here, 'Anything you need kid, just ask'," Jason shrugged as he walked off and Bruce stood with Dick as Titus chewed on Dick's hand then.

"I swear he does this half story thing to annoy us," Dick muttered.

Bruce said nothing, he just wondered how Jason had survived this long and not gone insane. Jason wasn't open about whatever he'd been up to, however, the young man was very sure in himself and what he was doing. Sighing, Bruce pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration at again not being able to reach his son, and looked at Dick who was looking equally frustrated but relaxed.

"How did you get him talking to you?" Bruce sighed.

"I just talk to him, once I stop prying at him he'll talk, Bruce." Dick shrugged.

"Damian, we're certain he's not here?" Bruce asked.

"No but it's looking like he isn't, and in all the chaos of the Tower, the House, and the fight and Talia it's likely he got left in San Francisco, I'll take Jay and check it over, then Jay's backup plan," Dick sighed.

"I will come with," Bruce decided.

"Kay, just don't agitate Jason, Bruce. He's made it very clear how he's handling whatever he's handling, and he'll bolt," Dick warned as he moved to follow Jason. Bruce just looked at the puppy Jason had gotten Damian, and sighed as he scratched the dog's head and followed his sons. He didn't know how to approach Jason, and Jason didn't seem interested in being approached. However, he would be patient about his, one of his most gracious virtues was his patience, and he'd out wait Jason if needed. Dick and Damian and Tim seemed to be slowly worming their way into Jason's life.

"Morning Jay," a bright voice announced as Bruce rounded the corner.

"Hey Steph, you haven't seen the demon spawn, have you?" Jason asked the blonde. And the girls seemed to be slipping into Jason life, faster than the boys. But Bruce was a bit unsurprised at that because Jason always had a soft spot for girls. Bruce had once thought Jason would have daughters if he ever got to being a father. However, those thoughts had died with Jason, now though, now he was hoping a bit Jason would actually get to live his life.

"Nope," Stephanie announced.

"Thanks kid. Constantine! Where's this fucking House right now!" Jason shouted as he disappeared and Bruce looked at Tim's friend. A girl he didn't always have the best relationship with as he looked down at her.

"What's happened to Damian?" Stephanie asked.

"It appears he's missing," Dick answered. "Same with Jon."

"Crap! I saw Damian leave the room, but I don't remember Jon leaving, we were getting patched up, I thought he was with Jason and Raven, that seems to be his preferred people when they're around," Stephanie said.

"He's not with them," he said calmly. He would not panic; yet. First they'd check the Tower, then they'd ask Felicity for Talia's location, and if Talia didn't have his son and Clark's then he'd call Clark and the League would get involved with this manhunt. However, Bruce wanted to avoid upsetting Clark and Lois, mostly because they were first time parents, and as a father of four sons Bruce knew boys had a tendency to find trouble. Or to just go running off for adventure. Not that Damian was the type to do that, but Jon was.

"Let me change and I'll come help you," Stephanie ordered as she disappeared up the stairs.

"Thank you," Bruce called as they looked for where Jason had disappeared.

"You know his disappearing act is really annoying!" Dick grumbled.

"It is," Bruce agreed. Jason seemed quiet, and seemed good at disappearing. Which was irritating, but more than that, it seemed that Jason was after solitude.

"Remember when he was little and he couldn't be quiet for five minutes?" Dick chuckled.

Bruce smiled. "Remember how small he was?"

"God, and now he's a frickin' giant!" Dick laughed. Bruce smiled, but he couldn't help but want to know th man his son was now.

However, first he had to find his youngest son.

Kori stood there in her room and looked her body over in the mirror before looking at herself from the side and biting her lip. She was pregnant, a mere thought she hadn't thought possible was no a reality within her grasp, and that was a thrilling thought to her as she slid her hands over her body and smiled a bit. There was a life in her, she just wondered if Dick would be as interested in that life as she was.

Dick was an excellent big brother, and he was so good with children.

However, Kori knew they were both young, Dick was twenty-four, as was she, they were both still figuring out their lives, and she might have to return to Tamaran in the future. Were they ready for a child? Well, she was, but she had also thought she'd never have a child of her own. Which was why she a bit apprehensive about this. Still there was a life in her, and she smiled at that.

"No matter what, you've got me," she whispered to her unborn child and then she picked up her armor as she walked out of her room for her team's training.

"Today's lesson will be fighting unknown combatants," she said and looked over her group of kids. Garfield walked up to be beside her and smiled.

"It's important that you get used to improvising in a fight!" Garfield announced.

"Yes, I have asked my brother if he would mind lending the royal guard for this lesson," Kori smiled as she saw her brother appear with the guard and saw the way Kara and Conner cringed, while Terra scowled, as Connor and Artemis sighed, Wally and Tim grinned, and M'gann looked the guard over thoughtfully.

"The guard do not know you or what you can do, and you do not know my brother's guard or what they can do," Kori said.

"Will you be joining us?" Kara asked.

"No, but you will have Garfield and Wally participating as captain and co captain," she said.

"Sweet!" Wally laughed.

"We're doomed," Artemis sighed.

"HEY!"

"Play nice children, I will be observing the fight and we will discuss how to improve from there," Kori smiled as she floated up. "Oh, guard, you are not to kill them, this is training," she said firmly.

The guard nodded.

Making her way up to the spectator area she landed by Galfore and smiled as she folded her arms and stared down at them. Her brother walked forward as the fight began.

"Did you find out what you wish to know yesterday?" Galfore asked softly.

"Yes, and yes I am expecting a child," she said softly. She did not wish for this news to break out from her, Galfore and the physician, else her father might order her to stay here and Tamaran, for as much as she loved it, was no longer her home. Earth was her home, where she was surrounded by Dick, Victor, Raven, Garfield, and her friends. That was home now.

"Will you speak with the father?" Galfore asked.

"Yes, it is… important, on Earth that the father have knowledge of his child. What he should chose is up to him," she said cautiously. Here fathers were not really important, merely sires to the heir. And most children were raised by eunuchs with very little parental overview. Galfore was closer to being her father than her father was her father.

"Really?"

"It is quite common on Earth for fathers to be involved with their offspring's lives," she mused. She remembered how shocked she'd been learning that from Dick, but now it was common. Not all fathers were like hers' or Raven's, Garfield had had a loving family before they had passed, Dick had had two father, John and Bruce, and Victor had a strained relationship with his father. However, fathers were important. Earth even had a holiday dedicated to them, and that was a very special day on Earth just for fathers!

"Strange," Galfore muttered.

"Very, but it is a good strange, I think," she said evenly. "Also, siblings are quite close on Earth. Dick is a good big brother for Tim and Damian, and he has recently found his estranged brother, Jason," she giggled.

"It is a strange world you have adopted, Koriand'r," Galfore said.

"Yes, but it is home to me now, and I would not trade it," she stated earnestly.

"Will you speak to your father about the child?" Galfore asked.

"Perhaps after it's birth and I can keep it on Earth, I refuse for my child not to have it's mother or father and be raised by strangers, no matter how much I love you Galfore, I do not want that for my child." She murmured and looked at her flat stomach.

"It is your choice, Princess, all of Tamaran will support you," Galfore avowed.

"Thank you, I should join the fight," she smiled. Tamaranians were warrior people, and her anatomy was different from a humans, her womb and unborn child were safely fortified within her and she was pleased knowing this as she pulled a staff and flew down for her brother who was aiming a cheap shot at Conner.

Whacking Ryand'r as she landed over him. her fist was raised and she released a burst of energy at the guard before she turned. Her staff slashing through a coming dagger as Tim leapt over her releasing an array of batarangs as he landed and pulled a Bo staff of his own.

"Thought you were sitting this out," Tim said.

"It appears I underestimated your abilities and decided to even the battle ground," she said as she let her powers fill her as her elated emotions flew and she released the energy as her brother knocked her feet out from under her, she was floating and she spun and punched him releasing her strength and sent her flying brother up.

"I've got Ryand'r," she said as she took off at full speed then and smiled at the thrill of a spar with a Tamaranian.

That's all for now folks.

Enjoy Rock Meet Bottom.