Chapter 11: The End
It was 11:07 pm. Queen Bee had arrived along with her bodyguards 5 minutes ago. A black hellicopter came down. The doors were open. The Team saw what was clearly the sillowette of Robin. He jumped out before the 3 adults followed.
"One is obviously The Master and I'm guessing another is Zucco but who's the 3ed?" Kid Flash asked via the mind link.
"You must be Master's new apprentice! He's been gloating that he's turned a good guy bad. Which ex-hero are you?" Queen Bee asked to masked teenager.
"He would be Robin," said The Master, stepping out of the hellicopter followed by Zucco and... The Joker?!
"Batman must be angry, even for him," she said.
"I haven't faced him yet," The Master said, placing a hand on Robin's shoulder.
Robin shook the hand off but it went back on and this time squeezed mercilessly. The Boy Wonder started to lean over with the pain pushing him down.
"ROBIN!" Zatanna shouted through the mind link.
A full hour later, Queen Bee snapped her fingers. One of her bodyguards held out a case. She flipped it open and it was filled with uncut diomands... a hole lot. Enough to put the Wayne family fortune to shame. This was obviously a pay out. The Master expected the diomands one by one, clearafying they were real. He snapped his fingers and Robin went back over to the hellicopter. He pulled 3 large, roughed up, black cases out and handed them to the Queen's bodyguards. They unzipped each case and they showed 2 of the pieces of tech Robin had stolen. A Molecule Dissrupter and a prodotype of the world's smallest Partical exelarator. The 3ed thing was in a metal silinder but Queen Bee seemed pleased with it.
"Perfect... simply perfect. If only Psimon could see this," Queen Bee exclaimed "Although, if it wasn't for you White Martian friend, he would be,"
Robin scowled undernieth his mask.
"Nubun," Robin hissed.
The Master slapped him over the head.
"No insolting royalty, Robin," he said.
"GA! Stop hitting me!" Robin exclaimed.
"No. You're my apprentice and I'll do what I want with a rebellious teenager like you!" The Master scowled.
Robin looked behind him and noticed the eyes of his girlfriend looking over a bush. They both went wide-eyed and Robin was instantly connected to the mind link.
"Robin!" Zatanna exlaimed.
"Z cool it. Buisness. I don't know what those parts are meant to build but I'm willing to bet $50 it isn't good," he said, keeping a leavelled head.
He wasn't paying attenchion to The Master, who had noticed Robin was uncharacteristically quiet.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Zatanna screamed aloud, stumbling out from behind the bush.
"Spies! Children!?" hissed The Joker.
Robin ran to Zatanna's side. She was barly seporting herself to the point she was on her hands and knees. Robin put his arm around over her back and his other arm around her waist and helped her stand. She twined her arms around his neck, tears falling down to the ground.
"Young love. I now see that I need to kill one of your friends to get your full co-oporation. Seems it has to be you girlfriend," said The Master, rigging the remote so the nanos stayed active even though he wasn't pressing the button.
At this moment the entire Team came storming out of the woods and attacked. Miss Martian joined in with the Bio-ship. Zatanna leant into Robin, feeling his warm inbrace. Her legs started to tire and the 2 slid down to the ground. Then the Justice League rained down from the sky. There were a lot of villains and criminals there. Zatanna put her hands on Robin's neck, under the head-mask, so she could feel his ebony hair. She started to slip the mask off. Just before she uncovered his sapphire-eyes she reached into her pocket and pulled out his usual Bat-mask. The battle raged around them. Zatanna slipped the Bat-mask under the head-mask and over his eyes and she pulled the head-mask clean off.
"You're not a criminal," she said, tears rolling down her cheeks "You're a hero... my hero,"
At this Zatanna leaned in and kissed him. Robin put his hand on the back of her neck as she had her right arm beant around his neck. Their spare arms where suporting them so they didn't tumble over. Robin felt Zatanna's tears as she continued to cry. She ripped herself away.
"Maybe after this I could start dating Dick Grayson?!" she said in a happy voice.
"I've always wanted you to," said Dick.
The battle suddenly went quiet. Batman finally cuffed The Master, who smiled as smile that rivaled The Joker's.
"Sorry Dickie-bird. But she's not going to live that long," he shouted (luckily for Robin's secret ID The Joker and Zucco were knocked out and Queen Bee was missing).
Zatanna suddenly looked into Robin's covered eyes. Despite the fact she had only put the mask on a minute ago, she took it off. The pain grew stonger, up her body, and now it was reaching her brain. Tears fell and wet the ground.
"Z..." Robin looked into her eyes, they were clouding "I- I... lo- lo..."
"...love..." she finished the word for him.
"...you," he finished the sentence.
If it wasn't for the fact Zatanna was dieing Miss Martian would have aahed at how romantic Robin could be.
"Ekam..." she started having trouble speaking "Ekam... siht... niap... o- og... yaw- ya- y..." she collapsed fully into Robin's arms.
Zatanna awoke to a blurry sight. Where was she? Was she dead? She heard someone say something... her name... All at once her vision cleared and she was fully awere of the world around her. She wasn't dead. She was in the Cave Infurmory. Her boyfriend stood next to her bed, in full Robin-uniform. The rest of the Team looked at her. Smiling.
"Yay," chirped Wally "Rob's first relationship isn't gonna end with something worse than being dumped!" he said, joking.
"How do you feel Zatanna?" Aqualad asked.
"Like I just rose from the dead," she answered.
"Good answer," Robin muttered.
"What happened?" Zatanna asked.
"We'll leave Robin to answer that," said Miss Martian and she and Rocket and Artemis pushed Aqualad, Superboy and Kid Flash out in front of them.
Zatanna looked at Robin, who had gone a dark red. She saw his hand resting on the bed and she took it, taking him by surprise.
"What happened?" she asked again.
"We managed to de-activate the nanos and extract them. You weren't dead but you were close. You needed a blood transplant but you needed alot and you have a rare blood type luckily I'm... also..." he blushed again "AB negative,"
"Talk about being close!" Zatanna joked, now noticing Robin was slightly paler than usual.
They laughed together and smiled, life was good...
1 month later...
It was approching midnight. Robin and Zatanna stood leaning against the railing of a Cave balcany, arms linked. They moved closer together and Robin put his hands on her hips and she twined her arms around his neck. Thankfully Robin had had a few growth-spurts and was now taller (just).
"100th day kiss," he said "Kinda corney,"
"Do we care?" she asked as his watch alarm started beeping, signaling it was midnight.
Zatanna pulled closer and the 2 kissed. But stopped in annoyance when they heard the smuthered giggles of Wally and Artemis. Yep, life with the Team was back to normal... well, Zatanna's deffinition of normal, anyway.
There you have it! All done. Corney ending I know. But I couldn't think of anyother way! Thanks for reading! Check out my other fanfic called Cracked, I think it's filed under Comics Young Justice, I meant to click Cartoon Young Justice. Oh well! SEE YA! :D
