Chapter 11: The Beginning of the End

The League were relieved to see M'att alive. Batman carefully undid the bandages Robin had done and redid them with a more professional touch. M'att winced and M'gann put her arm around him.

"How come you suddenly like me?" M'att said "You where annoyed about my powers only yesterday,"

"Then I realized that you're my cousin. And I take family seriously," she said, smiling, then ran her fingers along his burnt cloak.

"It's alright," he said, he sent out mental commands and his cloak grew to its normal form "See?"

M'gann nodded but still looked concerned. That's when Mary and Dick walked in, masks off. They both smiled their identical smirks.

"Good to see you alive and as green as ever!" Mary said.

"You had us all worried sick, dude," said Dick.

M'att smiled.

"Anything happen when I was gone?" he asked.

"We have the Crushmandine 24..." said Mary "We're due to return to the future in 6 hours. FYI, you dad's been frantic about you,"

"Yeah right," hissed M'att "He don't care squat," he sounded surprisingly young.

"Give him a chance. From what I've heard he doesn't know how to handle having a son. It sounds like it took him be surprise," Dick said, glancing at Batman, both remembering Dick's first week at Wayne Manor.

"Yeah, well..." M'att didn't know how to answer, luckily he didn't have to.

"GUYS! SOMETHING INSANE'S HAPPENING!" Wally suddenly burst into the room.

"What?" both Robins asked.

"YOU HAVE TO SEE IT!" and he ran out.

They all ran into the main hub of the Cave. A bright light was disappearing and 4 figures were standing there. 4 very recognizable figures...

"MOM? DAD?" Mary and Giovarni cried.

Nightwing and an older looking Zatanna straightened themselves and smiled at their kids. Mary and Giovarni ran into their open arms.

"What are you guys doing here?" Mary asked.

"Something in the file," Nightwing said, crouching down to be level with Mary.

Cameron and Miranda had run into one of the other 4 figures... their mother.

"MOM!" they cried.

The older M'gann hugged them deeply. Kissing them both on the top of their heads. M'att stood awkwardly next to Batman.

"M'ATT!" she cried, telekineticly bringing him into her embrace.

"I'm fine M'gann," M'att said.

The 4th figure was obviously Artemis. Will walked up to her, running his fingers through his flaming hair.

"Hi Mom," he said.

Artemis looked at him, her arms crossed and frowning. This made Will think he'd done something wrong. But Artemis started to smile and hugged her youngest son. Will was barely taller than her waist.

"Hi honey," Artemis said, lovingly.

The past Artemis looked at how loving she would become. Wally smiled at her, thinking that in 2 years she wasn't going to be that bad a mom after all.

It took 5 minutes before the future Team had finished reacquainting themselves with their family.

"They're due to return to your time in a matter of hours," said Batman, reminding everyone he was there.

"While I was hacking the file I found out Klarion was going to attack the Cave," said Nightwing, seriously, a hand on his daughter's shoulder "It also said that we come back in time. The file told us the plan we need to follow. First... Batboy, Sword-swipe, Superboy and Aqualas need to take the Crushmandine 24 and return to the future," Nightwing started to explain.

"It's in the volt. Man that thing is thick," said a giddy Mary.

Nightwing nodded and smiled at her. This made his teenage self feel a bit awkward. Batman noticed this and the realization that Nightwing was Robin age 36 hit him. Nightwing also noticed Dick's sudden awkward feelings. He took out his time-worp communicator and turned it on.

"Wally, start up the worm-hole generator. The plan's in action," he said.

"Aye, aye captain," the static voice of the older Wally said, jokingly.

The future Team started saying good-bye while Batboy and Dick went to the volt to get the Crushmandine 24. When they returned the worm-hole had opened up. Cameron was hugging his little sister.

"See ya in a few, sis," he said.

Batboy had the Crushmandine 24 in its capsule, strung around his shoulder. After good-byes people started leaving through the worm-hole.

"See ya B.B," Dick said as Batboy walked through.

"Don't call me tha-" he was already gone.

The worm-hole closed and everyone looked to Nightwing for the rest of the plan...

Klarion cackled, descending upon Mount Justice. Teekl meowed as Klarion scratched him behind the ears. He heard murmuring which made him stop. Standing on his magical platform. Then a girl he'd never seen before appeared. She jumped up off the ground and punched him right in the face. Baffled, Klarion shot red lightning at her which pushed her away. Who was she? She fell and landed with a thud, making a crater, where she landed. Klarion landed a few feet away. He looked at the super-strong girl and noticed her tight-fitting black t-shirt had the super S on it. Had Cadmus created another super-clone with out him knowing? Out of no where a girl wearing a similar uniform to the Boy Wonder attacked. She appeared from his side and punched him across the face. He shot red-lightning and she was pushed to the ground. There was a similarity in looks between her and Robin. Had a Robin clone been made too? Then arrows were shot at him. A redhead was steadily walking towards him with each arrow fired. He held a resemblance to Kid Flash and Artemis. How many clones had been made? When Klarion retaliated against the redheaded archer the archer momentarily disappeared. Out of the way of Klarion's red lightning. Moments passed and the red archers bow was suddenly around Klarion's neck, the archer mysteriously appearing behind him.

"What the?" exclaimed Klarion, sounding surprisingly mortal "Who are you? What are you? A Kid Flash clone? Or an Artemis clone?"

"Neither! The name's Speed Arrow," and the red archer kneed Klarion in the back.

"Mine's Supergirl," said the super-strong girl "I'm not a Cadmus clone,"

"Neither am I," said the Robin-girl.

Klarion noticed he was surrounded. Time for some fun...

What happens next? Next chapter will probably be the last. Sorry for those who don't want to see this story end. Read my author's note after the next chapter and you may get a pleasant surprise! :D