"Let's get this taken care of before those three knock down the building and get us into trouble with Batman of all people."
In reality, Violet was far more terrified of getting in trouble with her mother for letting some cyborg invade their home, let alone kidnap her youngest brother but also how she did nothing to stop the older of her two younger brothers from – well, being Dash. She wasn't sure how anyone could stop Dash from being Dash, yet in the back of her mind, she felt as if she were going to be in trouble for that of all things. Not to mention, her two younger brothers were definitely – as Robin said, - likely going to tear the building down with the help of that Cyborg.
After all – it was likely Jack Jack who somehow sent Cyborg flying through not one, but two walls. She could hear the fighting on the other side of the broken wall. She wasn't sure what to do and turned towards Kid Flash who seemed like the oldest, only to find him shuddering at the thought of getting in trouble with Batman. "Is it really that bad? Getting in trouble with Batman?"
"Oh, well – yeah."
"He can't possibly be worse than my mom."
"You mean he can't be worse than a mother hen when he is a mother hen?"
"Guys." Robin let out a sigh. "Look, I need you two to distract Cyborg so that I can get onto his back and actually hack into him and remove that programming which is causing him to do all of this." Violet turned towards him, wanting to protest that he should be adding a prefix to the word cyborg, then heard him say. "He's not normally like this."
"Wait. His name really is Cyborg."
"Yeah. Probably not the most creative name one could think of, but someone ended up programming him because he was in the Cyborg form of coma, so to speak."
"And you know this how?" Kid Flash folded his arms across his chest, making Violet wonder why Kid Flash was asking this.
"Can we focus?"
"Oh, yeah. Distraction. I can handle that, but I think I can manipulate at least your kid brother into helping me if I make it look like a contest. It will also be a lot easier than getting your stupid mask back."
Of course, she didn't know how he got Robin's mask back. She still wasn't sure what she should do in the given situation. Robin let out a sigh. "So, um – about..."
"Look. I'm not going to give away your secret identity. After all, you're the one who lectured my younger brother about giving mine away."
"No. Um – about Rachel."
"Oh. The new girl." She glanced at the floor, her hands clenching. "He has a crush on Rachel, but I'm okay with that, right."
"Look. I don't want you to get the wrong idea about her." Which was in truth a weird thing to say. "She was, um – the ghost you and KF saw. That's kind of her abilities, but don't tell KF."
"Wait. Why?"
"Because she's not been introduced to the team yet. Neither has Cyborg. It's – complicated."
"Yeah. Your life seems majorly complicated, but why are you telling me this."
"Because she and I don't want you to think she was making friends with you, because, you know – I knew..."
He was definitely awkward, something she'd not expected for either Robin or Dick Grayson, yet she'd never expected they were the same person. "Knew about my superpowers since those girls poured who knows what onto my head in the lunchroom."
"She's really sincere about the whole making friends with you, but..."
"Could we possibly talk about this later?"
"Uh, sure."
Violet turned, her lips pressed together in a tight line as she headed through the hole herself where she saw her two brothers and Kid Flash distracting the cyborg – the one Robin called Cyborg. "What exactly am I supposed to do to help distract him?" Taking a deep breath, she stepped into the fray. Her eyes drifted back to the hole where Robin came out, a thought crossing her mind. "He has confidence issues as well. I mean, he was so unsure of himself when he had his mask off, but..." The thought process continued. "I kind of get it – feeling more confident with the mask on."
Somehow, she turned invisible and picked up an item when she used to hit Cyborg, making him turn to look at her. He turned, that red eye of his looking right at her, as if...
"Oh, shoot." Violet realized then that Cyborg had heat vision that could likely see the heat of her body, rendering her invisibility useless. He swung out at her and she lifted her arms up, intending to stand her ground while becoming visible as her invisibility was as she suspected rendered useless when something unexpected happened – an invisible shield appeared, deflecting Cyborg's attack and making his arm bounce back slightly.
Kid Flash, of course, piped up. "Did you just learn a new trick? Awesome. I wish you had a nickname, though." He dashed away while Dash dashed up with his jaw dropped.
"Cool Vi."
"Seriously? What's with you and giving away my real name?"
"Uh..."
Her attention turned back to Cyborg, who was attempting to fend off an angry Jack Jack when she saw Robin do his thing. She didn't know how he was so agile, given how he ran up the wall or pulled off the flips he did, but she watched him land on the shoulders of Cyborg, this time landing so his legs wrapped around Cyborg's neck instead of his waist, the distraction proving effective in getting him into the position he needed.
"Hey." She looked right at her younger brother who was still as annoying as ever. "Continue distracting him so he doesn't dislodge Robin so Robin can do his thing."
"Distract him. Okay." Dash, of course, did what he did best – Dash all over the place, but Kid Flash did the same, except Kid Flash scooped up Jack Jack much to the infant's delight providing a rather interesting distraction as Jack Jack became a bouncing Jack with the speed that Kid Flash darted him around Cyborg. She kept her shield up, watching Robin put the cord into Cyborg, his concentration on his computer while he hung on. How he hung on, she didn't get, but then the expression on Cyborg's face changed.
"Wait. What's happening?" Cyborg's mind focused on Jack Jack suddenly, making Violet worry, but not for long. "Wait. What's with the super baby? Oh, man! He's adorable."
"Yeah, good to have you back Cy."
"Wait? You know him, Rob."
"Oh. It's you on my back?"
"Yeah. I kind of had to remove some extra programming, but could we focus on taking out the goons of the guy who kidnapped you in order that we might, you know – get done before Batman gets here?"
"Wait? We're in Gotham? And what happened to Trigon?"
"Wait. You mean the incident with the..." Kid Flash pointed his finger at Cyborg. "You're a Teen Titan?"
"Yeah. Robin's also our leader, though..."
Kid Flash's jaw dropped while Violet noticed Robin look rather uncomfortable. She felt a blush spreading across her cheeks, remembering how...
"Robin and..." Thankfully, Kid Flash was quicker than Dash, clapping a hand over his mouth, yet she knew Dash remembered her comment about preferring to date the leader of the Teen Titans over Robin – who just so happened to be Robin.
"What have I said about giving away one's real identity?"
Cyborg held out his hand. "I'm Cyborg by the way,"
Violet took it. "I'm, well – I don't have a codename yet."
Robin patted Cyborg's arm from where he was, yet he seemed quite comfortable remaining on top of the gigantic cyborg's shoulders. "Glad to have you back, though Raven wants me to let you know it's been a whole year since the Trigon incident, but that she's doing fine."
"Wait? Who?" Kid Flash glared at Robin.
"I'm thinking she's the ghost we saw."
"Wait! I knew you did see it."
"Wait? You mean the ghost I missed?"
"None of your business." Honestly, she liked a secret Dash didn't have.
"I'm Dash." Dash took Cyborg's hand and let him shake the guy's hand while Jack Jack started calming down.
Violet facepalmed. "Why did they have to call him Dashiell of all things?"
"Yeah. From your sister's reaction, that's your real name. You really need to come up with a codename kid."
"Yeah, well Cyborg isn't very creative."
"Cyborg was easy for Beast Boy and Starfire to remember."
...which were two other names Violet didn't recognize. Robin let out a sigh. "Guys. The other bad guys?"
"On it." Kid Flash dashed off, then came back. "Done. Now we can get out of here, hopefully before Batman..."
"Oh, it's not Batman who's going to find you, kids, first."
Violet turned her head, swallowing upon seeing her parents, realizing the scene was far from ideal to the three people looking on. She waved her hand at the three superheroes standing there, putting on a fake smile, knowing full well she was in deep trouble. Kid Flash pointed. "Wait. Is that Frozone, like, the one good ice guy I can think of whose a Superhero, and Mr. Incredible and... um."
"Elastigirl."
"Oh. So you were a part of Doom Patrol," Cyborg piped up.
"Wait. What?" Violet watched her father give her mother a strange look.
"My mentor may have been a member of Doom Patrol and I may have taken over her old nickname, minus the hyphen.
"That means you know Beast Boy," Cyborg said
Her mother cleared her throat. "Can we please focus on the fact you kids are out playing vigilante?"
"We're not playing." Robin gave her a serious look. "And before you go off on your children, you should know that Cyborg with weird programming randomly showed up at your house where your youngest's powers activated, so he took off – the extra programmings removed, but now that he's not in a Cyborg coma..."
"Wait. I missed his superpowers awakening." Her mother's eyes widened, then her eyes narrowed. "That's not the point. You kids could have been killed."
"Yeah, well, if you let me finish, Cyborg took off with Jack Jack and your kids..."
"Should have called us instead of taking matters into their own hands."
"So you could chew me out for letting some Cyborg attack our house and let him take off with my baby brother?" Violet pointed at Dash. "Not to mention the fact he just took off."
"Um, guys?" Kid Flash's attention seemed to be elsewhere.
"Seriously?"
Violet couldn't help but notice her father say nothing, but now he was pointing. She turned her head, her blood running cold, but a quick glance around revealed everyone else noticed as well – the presence of Batman. Everyone in the room looked as horrified of the dark hero as she felt – everyone except Robin.
Instead, he bounded off Cyborg's shoulders, doing a one-handed stand as he did so before flipping over and rushing over to Batman, giving the man a rather large grin. "Hi. Sorry for the trouble."
"I'd say you're lucky Raven decided to contact me, but it seems you have everything under control."
"Hold it!" The look of horror on her mother's face faded. "You're okay with them playing vigilante."
"We'll discuss that later. Right now I'd prefer to get Robin and the others home."
Violet now wasn't sure who was more scary – the man in the Batsuit, or her mother in all her superheroine glory. Of course, Kid Flash blurted out, "She-saw-Robin-without-his-mask-by accident."
"Is this true."
Robin, of course, glared at Kid Flash while Violet watched her mother's jaw drop, while her father and Frozone – well, their jars dropped and they simply stared. She watched Robin slip under Batman's cape, almost as if purposefully avoiding eye contact, including eye contact with his mentor
"Well, isn't this a great way to end our first time as actual superheroes." Violet let out a sigh, knowing full well there would be repercussions. Jack Jack was safe, though, and as such she didn't care how grounded she was for their adventure. The problem was – she found she quite liked it. "Oh well, I guess. I like having more confidence in myself though."