A/N: Hey my devoted and lovely readers. Once again, my excuse for not writing has been super busy life, but know that I have not forgotten this story.
Any way... Rated T for minor cursing, perhaps violence, and some adult suggested themes
Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice, sorry for any OOC
Chapter 27: Confrontation
That's when I see a nightmare come true. Batgirl is distracted by Kaldur after her gun runs out of bullets, she's not even facing Zatanna when Zatanna blasts her off the side of the building. Suddenly five people falling flashes across my vision and I swear I can hear bones cracking.
"ZATANNA NO!" I sprint to the edge of the roof and dive towards the ground trying to grab Babs before we both become splats.
Robin P.O.V.
Wind rushes past my ears as I compact my body to created less air resistance so I can reach Babs. I barely register the shouts coming from the roof screaming at me in fear. Time slows as I finally can grab Babs's wrist from where she spread her arms to create more air resistance. Then time speeds up. I shoot my grapple gun at the building that Zatanna was trying to make Babs land on.
It catches just in time but the sudden tension in the line sends us crashing into the brick siding. I move my body so that I am between the building and Babs when we crash. Pain flares up from the whole side of my body, but most prominently my shoulder as it takes the brunt of the impact and I hear a distinct pop.
Next thing I know Babs is using my hold on her wrist to kick off the side of the building and into me. Her foot hits my forearm and I am just barely able to keep my hold on her, but I know there will be a huge bruise there later.
I let go of the grapple gun and drop to the ground using the momentum of the landing to make Babs and I roll away from the building, the drop wasn't far, only 7 feet. I groan as I stand up. My right arm hangs limply and I know I have to fix it before I can fight Harley, let alone Batgirl. I eye the side of the building and then run into it, letting my shoulder hit and angle the hit to push my shoulder back into its socket.
More pain rushes through my shoulder, but now I can use it. While I was preoccupied with putting my shoulder back in its socket Babs stood up and grabbed her electrified whip from where it fell when Babs went off the building. She smirks at me with a predatory look.
I walk away from the side of the building so I'm not cornered in, "BG please, I don't want to have to fight you." I can't hurt her, she's been my best friend for years, the person I've loved for years. I get Poison Ivy's mind control cure from my utility belt, the only problem is that I need to get to close quarters and stick the needle in a vein for it to work.
She snarls at me and moves her arm back and then forward in the rapid motion of a person trained in using a whip. This is one of the few times I've wished that the Bat weapons training wasn't so thorough. I remember working on her whip skills and us laughing as she got good enough to duel with Catwoman, the look on Selina's face was enough to make us giggle the whole patrol. I leap to the side and try to move in closer. The whip is good for medium and close distance, but if I can get in close enough the whip will become much harder to use properly.
She again flicks the whip at me and because of my closer distance it is harder to dodge. I swear the crackling of the electricity could be heard as it misses my ear by 3 inches. One more hard jump has me inside of Babs's personal space so I can grab block her forearms before she can flick the whip again. This doesn't faze her.
She throws the whip to the side and aims a punch at the side of my throat. I sway backwards out of the way, "BG, come on you're stronger than her toxin". She doesn't have control of what she's doing, I can't possibly forgive myself if I hurt her while she's like this. It feels like my conscience is being torn in two because I need to fight her so that I can complete the mission and help the young girls, but this is Babs…
She again goes for a punch to my stomach, but it's a feint and the real attack goes to my injured shoulder as I try to find a way to block without hurting her. "AGHH" I try to keep my shriek shout and quiet, but that felt like an icepick going through my shoulder. I sweep my arm at hers and step in closer to her. I twist around to gain momentum as I punch her in the stomach. It feels like the punch landed on me instead of her as my guilt clenches. She doubles over and my heart breaks a little as I use this as a chance to knife her in the back of the neck with my hand.
She falls forwards but turns onto her back fast. She tries to sweep my legs out from under me, but I'm expecting this and roll with the motion so that I'm pinning her down. She squirms and my stomach drops as I try to stick her with a needle without causing damage.
I'm finally able to give her the shot. She roars as it goes in and manages to headbutt me after the fact. She rips the needle out and I pale when seeing the damage she did in her desperation to get it out. Then her face scrunches up as she looks around. Her eyes finally fall on me. "Rob, what is going on."
I shudder and hold in a slight sob, she's back. My Babs is back. Letting her get mind-controlled down in the security building has been killing me. I needed this so bad, but I don't let it show "Oh, you know, just a little whelming battle to defeat the baddies is all." I can't help myself, I quickly go over to her and hug her in relief that she is okay. Her body tenses up in concern and her face still shows confusion, but I don't care in this moment.
Then of course my relief has to be ruined by yelling for the roof of the mechanics building. I rapidly turn to look up and can't believe what I'm seeing. Somehow, even with Ivy being down and the whole team focusing on Harley, she still beat them.
I hear a helicopter and see one coming in to take Harley and Ivy away, I can't let that happen. Now I'm so grateful Harley decided there had to be a playground in this finishing school, and that it had to have circus equipment for her clown background. The trapeze is a God send as I take off running. I know Babs is following, but she won't be able to get to the roof like me.
I speed up and tumble into a front handspring before rebounding high enough to grab the bar of the trapeze. The momentum sends me forward, but I need more to send me onto the roof so I swing back and then forwards one more time before letting go at the top of the swing and doing four flips and rolling as I land on the roof.
Harley grins at me before she rushes me while swinging her mallet. A maniacal laugh bubbles from her throat as she swings her mallet back and forth while I dodge. I have her chase me into the corner of the roof before grabbing onto her mallet when she swings again. I press downwards on the mallet and use it as a springboard to canon myself over Quinn.
She turns to face me and I punch he straight in her too happy face. She goes down and hits her head on the cement of the roof. I grab her mallet and throw it incase she tries anything. She jumps back at me and tries for a tackle. I dodge and she goes flying forwards, I do a rapid spin kick and hit her in the temple. She doesn't get up this time.
Babs, with her great timing, has just reached the roof. Together we zip tie Harley and Ivy and contact the police for pick up. I move to check on the team. Everyone seems to be fairly decent, and once I find and remove the kryptonite from where it was under Conner, he begins to awaken.
Babs is looking at me, her expression demands an explanation. I can't breathe from the guilt of her getting mind-controlled, my eyes well up slightly behind my mask and I don't look her in the eye "B, I'm so sorry," every word tumbles out of my mouth and gets faster as I get more wound up "You were mind controlled and you had to fight us and you got thrown off the building and I had to fight you and I hurt you and I'm so sorry. I'm so so so sorry, I was done there when they were interrogating you, I was outside the door when they mind-controlled you and I did nothing and you had to pay the price and I should have done something and I-"
Babs rushed forward when I was doing my horrible explanation and cut me off with a kiss. I've been wanting this for so long that my brain short functions. I can only focus on her lips on mine and the taste of her favorite brand of gum. She breaks it off and looks into my eyes, "say sorry one more time and I'll throttle you. I get it, I get why you couldn't jump in and rescue me. This was my fault anyways, I was the one who rushed in because I was mad, so stop saying sorry."
She knows me so well, she doesn't ask me to stop feeling guilty because she knows I can't. More groans are heard. I look over and Superboy is sitting up with M'gann's head in his lap, her eyes are half open. To my embarrassment Roy is looking over at Babs and I with a protective glint in his eyes. Wally and Artemis are just starting to stand and Kaldur is over by Zatanna checking to see if she is all right.
Zatanna. My blood starts to boil as I look at her. She is just awakening and Kaldur is helping her up. I stalk over, not even looking back as Babs make a confused sound. My hands are clenched into fists when I reach Zatanna and Aqualad. I explode, "How dare you?! I specifically said not to blast Batgirl!"
Babs has stopped walking over and the rest of the team watches with wide eyes as I yell at our team leader and the person the thought I had a crush on. Staring Zatanna straight in the eye I continue "You could have killed her! The blast you sent would have hurled BG off the building and made her crash into either the ground or the lower part of a brick building." I turn to look more directly at Kaldur, "And you! I can't believe you went along with her plan. You are our leader and when a teammate brings up a safety concern you should take it seriously. If I hadn't been able to save her… you don't want to know what would've happened."
To his credit Kaldur looks ashamed, "I couldn't think of any other plan. The rest of the team needed our help and I had hoped that with her training she would be able to have a safe enough landing," he turns over to look at BG, "I am truly sorry for what happened. I was not thinking straight from the worry I had with the rest of the team. This is no excuse and I hope that you will be able to forgive me." Babs just nods, probably because she can't remember the occurrence and because everything turned out alright for her. For me, I think I'm going to be having nightmares of her falling with my parents.
Zatanna's lips tighten from my lecturing and she gives a cold glare to me and Batgirl before abruptly turning and walking away.
Babs P.O.V.
I'm not to concerned with Kaldur's apologies, I mean I can't even be mad because I can't remember him putting me in danger. I am, however, mad that Zatanna had the nerve to just walk away after Dick clearly gave her a lecture she needed to hear.
I turn to look at Dick when I hear him growl. He takes a step to follow her, and probably yell at her when I grab his wrist. He looks at me with steel in his eyes, but also questioningly. I blush, I can't believe I actually kissed him a few seconds ago. He seemed responsive, but he has yet to acknowledge my kiss. God, what if he just doesn't want to hurt my feelings, what if he doesn't like me. His face softens, and as if he could read my mind he kisses my cheek, "Why don't you get your Batgirl uniform on so when the GCPD get here they have a hero to meet." My heart soars and I rush to get my uniform.
When I get back to the roof, in full Batgirl getup, the team is gone. I'm not concerned, Dick told me over communicator that M'gann contacted the bioship and they are waiting in stealth mode for me. The GCPD meets me ten minutes later and I explain the situation to Bullock. Thankfully my dad is at a meeting, I'm so nervous about seeing him when I'm in my Batgirl uniform.
The girls are all taken into protective custody to wait for their parents to get them, and probably to got through therapy. The boys-turned-girls are sent to a Wayne laboratory that has connection with the police to see if they can find a cure and turn the boys back. I watch as the last girl is taken off the scene and then disappear while Bullock has his back to me. I make it to the Bioship pick up point and enter an extremely tense atmosphere. This is going to be a fun ride back to the mountain.
A/N:
Whoa. That was a long one. I wasn't planning on making it that long, and to be honest I'm not too happy with it. Please tell me what you guys think, reviews really do make my day!
