Disclaimer: I wonder if I could make up a riddle for saying "they ain't mine"

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'341… 342… 343… 344… 34- whoa.' Robin stopped spinning in the chair when he heard the sirens. Hey! As he was on monitor duty he should have been the one to set the alarms off, but maybe it was automated… He tried to stand up, but feeling sick he slowly slumped back down again and checked the monitor screens. 'Holy inter-dimensional space invasions…'

'Robin, status report,' Batman's barked order caused the boy wonder to jump as the com to the room was activated.

Robin gulped, still trying to battle the ill felling growing at the bottom of his stomach. Not from being invaded- but spinning on the damn chair too much 'There are hostile forces coming through an inter-dimensional portal somewhere above the Canadian Rockies. They're moving south blasting anything in their path… half a dozen forest fires already reported.'

'Numbers?'

'Two dozen ships so far about forty meters in length, ten meters across. Another dozen just appeared…'

'Robin stay put while I assemble the JLA. This is an order: do not move from the monitor room. I'll send Wonder Girl to meet you there; but under no circumstances are you to leave. Understand?' Batman's voice came through the com line with slight anxiety, he hadn't intended for the boy to be involved with JLA business after all… they saved the world every other week, this shouldn't be any different and it wasn't necessary for Robin to accompany him, he'd decided. Unfortunately when it came to things like this the boy was known to bend the rules, which made it all the more important to Batman to enforce them.

'Yes sir' came the stoic reply. Well at least he should have some company… it had been nearly an hour already, Dick thought checking his watch yet again. He then looked up and asked hopefully 'Batman?'

'Yes?' The grunt sounded a little lighter.

'Am I still grounded?'

'We'll see.' A smile threatened to break across Batman's lips as he heard the disappointed sigh, an invasion and this was all the kid could worry about. 'We'll see chum.'

A/N chum is what Batman called Dick throughout his early career; I'm talking 1940s and 50s here…apologies for the use of Robin's catchphrase earlier with the 'holy…' it is one of the cheesiest lines around but I dedicate it to the sixties television show ; )

'Superman should lead the assault whilst-' Batman looked up as a rattled Atom entered the room by himself. Batman seemed to have a twinkle of humour in his eye as he stated 'You're supposed to be looking after the titans.'

'Uh, well that is to say-'

'Spit it out Ray,' Green Arrow said impatiently rising to his feet.

'The boys- they sort of made a break for it.' Atom lowered his head sheepishly. The JLA except for Batman stared at him, in worry and shock.

'What could they hope to accomplish?' Wonder Woman asked.

'Well…' Ray shrugged and scratched the back of his head. 'I have absolutely no idea.'

'Speedy! Aqualad! Kid Flash!' Donna cried out in excitement 'what are you doing here!'

'Came to see you, Wonder Girl,' Speedy puffed out his chest a little as she looked at him appraisingly.

'Did you hear the alarms?' Kid Flash asked nervously, 'Are they looking for us?'

'No, Diana told me it was because there was an invasion from another world.'

'Diana?' Speedy wondered aloud.

'Wonder Woman feather-brains.' Garth said irritated. Donna apparently didn't seem to mind or notice; their antics were background noise by now. 'Invasion…?'

'We are forbidden to help…' Donna said glumly staring at the floor. She suddenly looked up, 'what of Robin?'

'Uh we're not sure where he is exactly; Batman shut him up somewhere without saying where.'

'We must find him!'

'Wing-head?'

'Huh- me?' Kid Flash looked startled and touched the wings on the side of his mask cautiously.

'Yeah, you see if you can find Robin. You are the fastest aren't you?' Roy rolled his eyes.

'Right…' Wally said disbelievingly.

'Hang on,' Donna held onto the back of Wally's neck with one hand and took out her communicator which was beeping with the other. 'It's Diana,'

'Don't tell her we're here!'

'But an Amazon cannot lie,'

'Please Donna just… bend the truth, I'll love you forever…' Roy gave a cheeky grin while Donna blushed pink.

'I- I'll… do my best…' She gave him a nervous smile and answered the call, swallowing slightly before speaking with a tentative voice 'Diana?'

'Donna, while the League deals with the threat you may join Robin in the monitor room, he could need help relaying information, should threats from the dimension turn up elsewhere. Please stay safe little sister,'

'I'll do my best Diana,'

'I know you will,' Wonder Woman replied with pride in her little sister. Her tone grew serious. 'If you happen to come across the other titans tell them they are forbidden to leave the watch tower and that Aquaman, Green Arrow and the Flash are furious with them for wondering off like that.'

'Yes, I will… see you when you get back' Roy shrugged it off while Aqualad and Kid Flash had complete looks of horror on their faces. Donna shut off her communicator and looked at it for a moment. 'At least we know where Robin is.'

Dick had finished sending over the last of the information to Batman, and now had nothing to do. He craned his neck at the door as he heard a noise outside and was alarmed when Donna, Wally, Garth and Roy came crashing into the room. Literally. Wally ended up slamming into Dick and knocking him onto the consol behind him.

'Argh! Watch where you're going, Wally!' Their leader complained as he felt a bruise start to form on the back of his head. Wally was aghast that he'd injured him and tried apologising at super speed.

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'Wally.' Dick interrupted him firmly 'I can't understand a word you just said, we talked about this… slow down!' Kid Flash nodded compliantly and was about to repeat what he'd said when Robin interrupted him again, looking at the others 'Why are you guys here?'

Garth hung his head 'before that invasion came along we snuck away from Atom because we were bored…'

'And now we want to go help beat up the bad guys.' Roy told Dick cheerfully. The other titans looked at him, surprised. He shrugged. 'Don't you guys want to?'

'We won't see daylight this side of the next century if we leave the watch tower.' Dick said in a defeated tone. Garth nodded in agreement.

'I do not wish to anger my sister but…' Donna paced nervously as the boys turned to look at her 'If we have the power to help, shouldn't we? It is what we are trained to do.'

Kid Flash sat down confused while Speedy flashed Wonder Girl his best grin. It wasn't every day an Amazon Princess sided with him. Dick seemed to be faltering in his arguments whilst Garth eyed Roy nervously. Did he actually have a half-decent idea? As it turned out… probably not.

'Roy, the JLA are used to dealing with these types of threats we should just leave it to them.' Garth grimaced.

'Hey we're heroes too! I can't believe you're going all yellow on us now, Gill-head!'

'I am not a coward!' Garth shouted clenching his fists.

'Could have proved me wrong…'

'Guys…' Robin sighed as he knew he'd have to be the one to sort this out.

'Shut it Boy Wonder,' Speedy said snarling.

'You should respect our leader Roy; he is much wiser than you.' Robin sat up a little straighter with the compliment but knew that it would only enrage Roy; he was always sensitive about his intelligence skills. He saw the punch coming but couldn't get between the two fast enough. Garth stumbled backwards a minute then recovering, launched himself at Roy, quite uncharacteristically for the enraged Atlantean, only to come across Robin who, although an acrobatic genius and master tactician, couldn't dodge the punch and after a brief glare, more than worthy of his mentor, at Garth he sunk to the ground unconscious.

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And that's a rap, as they say. Sorry this is later than I said, but I got dragged into clearing out boxes for the last few days that should have been sorted a year ago, but that's how it goes… Next time the Titans end up getting in some more trouble, not just of their own making. I know I'm slow getting to the action, but I'll get there…

Yourperfectdisaster- The hardest part when writing a story in installments like this is to keep it up to standard so I'm glad you like the chapters so far and you find this one as entertaining!

Batfan7- well, I think knocking out their fearless leader counts as a little trouble… he he. The only other person I can think of who isn't afraid of Batman is Alfred, and y'know insane Gotham villains… but they don't have common sense.

Arica, Princess of Rivendell- late is better than never when updating, I guess…

Thanks for reviewing and I'll get the next chapter up soon as I can. I'm not averse to constructive criticism so anyone who's been silent please review… any feedback is good and can make a difference. Thx.