Green Arrow and The Bats first Partners


Watchtower, Earth's Orbit

February 28th, 2008

The computer's voice resounded through The Watchtower, and announced Batman and three others. Oliver's eyes rose at the announcement of unknown persons in The Watchtower, his fingers twitched towards his bow, but stopped as voices reached him, voice in the middle of an argument.

"How is this different than any other time?" Came the voice of a young boy. There was a brief pause before he continued. "See even O agrees with me! We can handle this B, especially with BG here! We don't need anyone else's help and we certainly don't need you kicking us out of Gotham! It's our city B, we'd be better suited than any of The Leaguers!"

"Yeah B, we can do this, just let us help!" A girl's voice, definitely older than the boy's, but Oliver guessed not by much. A growl echoed down towards him, and barely preceded the quartet. Batman's dark shape cut through the well lit Watchtower followed by a trio of smaller shapes, the tallest was a girl in black and purple fashioned after The Bat himself but with much larger white lenses and fiery red hair, she was slim and definitely no older than like fourteen and most likely younger. The next tallest was a shorter boy, he had a deep black domino mask, red uniform and black and yellow cape with dark cut hair that looked like a stylized mess. The shortest and youngest, and only by a fraction, was a girl clad in black and dark grey from head to toe. Her mask covered everything and a black hood was pulled over that, stitched over her mouth was a frowning face, and a pair of goggles covered her eyes from view.

While the first two kids definitely only had the utility belts, the third had something similar, but a short bladed katana-like sword was sheathed on her belt. Oliver could just make out from the way her cloak shifted awkwardly at her waist. Batman rubbed at his forehead and pointed towards Oliver.

"I assume you remember Robin, Batgirl, and Orphan? My partners/proteges." He waved them forwards, and narrowed his lenses when the triplet refused to budge. "Might I remind you that if you want to continue this then you will follow my orders. Arrow I need Superman and Wonder Woman to assist me in locating escapees from Arkham, they'll know what to do. I also need you to watch these three and keep them out of trouble."

"Um, Bats, are you serious? Are you crazy? I can't take care of kids?" Batman's lips curled upwards ever so slightly as he turned back towards the Zeta Tubes.

"Think of it as practice Arrow, you took on a partner within the last year, what are three of mine for a few hours at most?" If Oliver didn't know better he'd bet Batman did this on purpose just to mess with him. Batman stopped after a few feet and turned his gaze back on the three kids. "Behave yourselves, if we hadn't been on patrol I'd have you back at your homes."

He disappeared down the hallway and left Oliver standing in front of the three bats. Oliver opened his mouth, and promptly shut it. He turned to the computer terminal and typed out the instructions/commands of The Bat for Superman and Wonder Woman. When Oliver turned back around all three of the kids were gone, and a cackle echoed through The Watchtower. Oh no. He turned as a shadow flitted past him. As he looked over at the holographic keyboard he found Batgirl, her fingers danced over the keys and his eyes went wide. On the holographic screen various files and programs were running, specifically classified things.

"Hey, Batgirl!" He rushed to lock the station, his hand swiped over it. The screen stopped and went blank. Large white lens rose to meet his own and the screen flared back to life with a wave of her hand. His jaw dropped. "What?"

"You want upgraded security or not? We did The Batcave last week, haven't had time to improve Watchtower security." Batgirl's fingers sped up. A cackle echoed down and a shape appeared at Batgirl's side. Green Arrow's lenses went wide. His eyes shot up to the line that trailed from the roof of the main atrium. A weight lifted off his back and Oliver spun.

Orphan held his bow and quiver in hand, her fingers tested the string as her head shifted, and mimicked her gaze that roamed up and down the wood. His hand twitched for the weapon, but Orphan pulled back.

"She's seeing if it's a 'worthy' weapon. She wants to make sure someone who watches B's back is using something inferior." Orphan's goggles rose and Oliver could almost feel the heat through the black lenses. Orphan seemed to glide over the ground, and her hand shot out and connected with Robin's shoulder. He grunted and his white lenses narrowed on her. "What? It's true! Plus I have no idea what you're looking for anyway."

Oliver scrambled and caught his bow and quiver as Orphan focused herself on Robin. Her fingers and hands shot into a flurry of action that even he couldn't follow. Robin crossed his arms and his mask rose along with his eyebrow. As Orphan's movements ceased, Robin continued and responded with a set of movements that, while slower, were still too fast for Oliver. The back and forth continued and Oliver remembered Batgirl on the computer.

"Hey wait a second, you may be Batman's protege, but that doesn't give you allowance to hack into secure systems." Green Arrow made for the keyboard again. It disappeared and Batgirl slipped backwards, a keyboard hovered over glove as the screen answered her one handed movements. He stepped forward and found both Orphan and Robin had abandoned their conversation? And intercepted him. His eyes narrowed on the three kids.

"Alright, step aside and stop being on the computer, Batman told you to behave and in my book that means doing as you're told and not messing with top secret and high security Justice League equipment." Oliver crossed his arms and the lenses of his domino mask narrowed on the kids. All three stopped and looked at each other. Robin turned to Oliver.

"K GA, we'll play by your rules, one condition though. You help us prank The Big Bad Bat." Oliver blanched. Robin cackled and shared a look with Batgirl. "First to the kitchen chooses what we watch while we eat Ice Cream."

Oliver's brain caught up with what Robin said as all three disappeared into The Watchtower. He rushed from the monitor station.


Bruce growled, his three charges were asleep, and from the disorder across the various rooms of The Watchtower he'd found were any indication they'd torn through most of the place. A good portion of the training equipment had pulled out, used, and scattered about. There were movies all around the rec room and the TV had still been on. The kitchen had bags of popcorn and bowls with the remains of ice cream on the counter. With a groan he slipped into his quarters. The 'Bat Glare' as Flash had so aptly named it, fell upon Green Arrow. Said hero sat in a chair at the bedside, the three kids with the lenses of their cowl and domino closed, while the goggles gave nothing away. They were all curled into each other, Orphan was the smallest spoon while Batgirl had a hold on Robin and the younger hero. Their little chests moved in smooth and steady rhythms, there wasn't a hint of tension in their muscles, and their faces reflected a peace he so rarely saw on them.

"When I asked you to babysit I thought it was implicit that you don't let them run wild?" His attention turned back to Green Arrow. The archer shrugged.

"I don't know how you control them, I had to give them food, let them watch TV, and had them run some training exercises as well as doing normal workouts. They wanted me to prank you, but I figured tiring them out was a better idea instead." The corner of Green Arrow's quirked upwards. Bruce narrowed his gaze.

"Thank you Green Arrow, I'll be sure to return the favour the next time Speedy drops by." Bruce leaned down and whispered into the ears of his children. Eventually he left, Orphan tucked into his arms while Robin hung off his back. Batgirl grinned at the scene. A few other Leaguers had stopped by and they wisely contained their smiles at Bruce, 'The Big Bad Bat', as he stalked to the Zeta tubes covered in and followed by kids. "I'm not letting you babysit for at least a month."


A/N:

I have no idea about this one, honestly I had this fun idea but then it just wasn't coming to me, I hope you guys enjoy it, and please tell me what you think. The glory of this little one-shot series is that even if it isn't my best work I'm not entirely against posting it, honestly reviews/comments on this piece that I don't like much would be helpful to see about improving my writing which is the reason I write fanfiction mainly. So hope you all enjoy and thanks for reading!

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