Monday: January First, 2018, at the Watchtower...
It seemed like another ordinarily day for the Justice League, who are working in the Watchtower, that is. However, today wasn't any other ordinary day. Heck, everyday has never been the same to the heroes of the Justice League. In fact, today, along with yesterday, was an extreme reminder on what they committed and what they nearly done that almost cost what's important to them to nearly die: The day Vandal Savage took mental control on the Justice League, and nearly fought with their young protégés to the death. It was a miracle that they were able to create a Cure-Tech and stop Vandal Savage from having the heroes in his complete control any longer. Sadly, the team was already too late and the villain has done what he wanted to be accomplished: Have the original seven Justice League members sent to Rimbor and claim themselves dangerous, so that Earth will be known as a dangerous planet. And even after all these years, from the beginning of 2011 all the way to the new years, the heroes will hold on to that guilt until the day they'll see their young protégés again.

While Flash and Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, decided to play a game of 'Poker' to speed time up from having Monitor Duty, the Watchtower let loose an alarm and had the whole room flash in red.

"WARNING! WARNING! UNIDENTIFIED SPACECRAFT HEADING TOWARDS EARTH!"

With that said, both Speedster and Lantern dropped their cards and quickly made their way towards the Main Computer, which could also contact the heroes at the Hall of Justice and to their own computers at their hometowns. Flash immediately contacted the heroes at the Hall of Justice with a holographic screen that held the list of all League names and quickly told them about the aircraft, while Lantern used the Main Computer to help him identify the aircraft more closely without having to go out there and getting attacked if the ship isn't friendly. As quickly as it just came on, the flashing of the red-light suddenly just stopped.

"ERROR! FALSE ALARM; SPACECRAFT, RECOGNIZED!"

Both Flash and Green Lantern ceased their jobs from the announcement of the computer, not believing what the computer has told them. Lantern then found the spacecraft and zoomed in on the image, to see a red-aircraft that the Watchtower has identified...

In Gotham City, at Wayne Enterprises...
Sitting at his desk, multi-billionaire and owner of Wayne Enterprises, Bruce Wayne quickly and quietly typed away on his computer. Today was one of his busy days, when god has decided to give him a challenge and have him work twice as hard at work, as if to show him the consequences on having to fight bad guys all night and gain little sleep. However, Once again, he proves that he can handle the responsibilities and would keep pushing himself if he were to let a single paperwork to be incomplete or late. As he tries to finish the last paperwork of the day, his phone suddenly rang. Bruce let out a groan, as he pulled out his smartphone from his pocket.

"Caller ID: Barry Allen"

'Great, and just when I was almost done with the last paperwork of the day. which would actually be the last paperwork of the whole week.' Bruce thought to himself, as he pressed the 'Call' button and placed it at the right-side of his face.

"Yeah?"

"Bruce, you have to come up here."

'And be annoyed by your stories on how you defeated your arch-enemies? Yeah, right.' "I don't have time to listen to your stories, Barry. I still have paperwork to do." He then recalled on something that the blonde had to do. "Also, you're suppose to be on Monitor Du-"

"Bruce, you have to come UP here! This is really important!"

When Bruce heard the word 'up' seems to be spoken out more than the rest of the words in Barry's sentence, the billionaire soon realized that something was indeed important. Deciding to finish his work on another day, Bruce quickly put on his coat, grabbed for his suitcase and walked out of his office. He then turned to his secretary.

"Tell Lucius that I'll be leaving early today and won't be back until next Monday, Sarah. Also, make sure to cancel all meetings that I've scheduled for the rest of the week. Have a bit of a Family Emergency from a friend of the family." His secretary, Sarah, who was typing away and listening to the caller on her phone, nodded her head and went to dial Lucius Fox's room number.

"Right away, Mr. Wayne. See you on next Monday, sir, and hope that your friend of the family is alright." Bruce nodded his head at his secretary, and then made his way towards his private elevator. He took out his key, turned it on the lock that was beside the elevator, and the doors finally opened. As he walked on the elevator and pressed 'F1' button, he turned his attention back to the phone still held in his right-hand. The elevator suddenly went down the moment the doors closed, and went to a slow pace towards the bottom of Wayne Enterprises. He then placed the phone back on the right-side of his face again.

"Now, what is it that could be so important that you needed me from work, Barry?" 'I swear, if he spilled soda on the Main Computer again or pressed the Emergency Button for the ninth time, I'm going to have him work his ass off in the Training Simulation Room on Level 14.'

"About fifteen minutes ago, the Watchtower has picked up an alien-spacecraft heading towards Earth. Right after it claims to not recognized the spacecraft, the computer suddenly identified the spacecraft."

The information suddenly caught the billionaire's attention. He most likely doubt the martians from Mars are sending in a spacecraft towards the Earth, when they had already done that seven years ago on March 19, which was a day before... Bruce suddenly felt cold, and sad from remembering the very first birthday he and Alfred couldn't celebrate the day a very special boy was brought onto the world, especially when it was on the First day of Spring. He then shook his head to clear his thought, and then walked off the elevator the moment the two doors opened and revealed to be the first floor of Wayne Enterprise. As he made his way towards one of the six doors that would lead people inside or outside of the building, he turned his attention back to the phone.

"If the computer knows the spacecraft, then it possibly means that an old-foe or ally has ca-"

"Bruce, it isn't an enemy or an ally ship from the other worlds. This is from our planet, because it's the same aircraft that belongs to the Team."

Bruce paused himself from going out of the building, making him halfway outside and halfway inside, still holding the door open from his right.

"What?" His heart was now beating much more than it usually does, excitement and hope causing it to increase blood to flow throughout his body. 'It couldn't be referring to 'their' aircraft... Could he?' "Barry, what are you saying?" Wasting no time to hold the answer from the billionaire playboy, Barry told. Right when the speedster told Bruce, the billionaire immediately ran down the stairs and into his car, with Barry's words repeating the one thing that Bruce has hoped to hear from the last seven years.

"Bruce, they're back."

The news caused Bruce to slam his foot onto the gas petal, and make a beeline back to the Manor.

"I'll be right there," he told Barry. Once he gave his reply, he turned off the smartphone to end his call. He then turned it back on, and went to press the 'Home Number'. Just when his finger was hanging over the button, he stopped his action. He then realized something: His son was coming home. After seven years of waiting, fighting and protecting the world from evil and The Light, his Little Bird was finally coming home. He then recalled something else: Dick isn't his only child anymore, nor will he actually be Bruce's eldest child.

During the seven years on protecting Gotham without having Robin by his side, he has met or found four boys and two girls, with two of the boys and one of the girls nearing to the twenties and the rest already in their twenties. All orphaned by abandonment, runaways, deceased family, or unexpecting surprises. He also found out that during the first nine years as being the Dark Knight, two of the four boys are actually his biological sons. With one of them created by Cadmus for Project: Batman Beyond when he was twenty, and the other made by him and Talia when he was twenty-one, back when they used to be in love before Bruce found out about Ra's Al Ghul's obsession on 'repairing' the world and Talia's loyalty to her father. And though the son they, unfortunately, created together, has been trained as an assassin for nearly nineteen years, he is still Bruce's son and a Wayne never abandons their own, even if that child had been taught to kill and carry out all orders by the League of Shadows.

Though he wasn't pleased by his decision on replacing 'his' Robin while he was gone, Bruce was quite proud of his elder children fighting at his side. Instead of just a bat and a robin protecting Gotham or two bats and a robin, it was now being protected by two birds and six bats... Which will soon be three birds and six bats protecting the city.

Snapping himself out of his thoughts and finding himself getting closer to home, Bruce turned off the contact list and pressed the bat-symbol on the bottom-right corner of the smartphone, which caused the road ahead of him to lift open and take the billionaire into the Batcave.

Moments Later, Now at Watchtower...
"RECOGNIZED: BATMAN, 0-2!"

The group of heroes, the original seven who first made the Justice League, turned their gaze towards the double doors when they heard the Watchtower announcing the arrival of the Dark Knight, watching the two doors pull apart and watching Batman walking into the Main Room in a fast walk.

"Where are they?" He asked, walking towards the monitor of the main computer to see if what Flash and Green Lantern said was true... And it was, with the image of the Bio-Ship hovering in the middle of space and its image matching the way it was exactly before it took off to Rimbor. However, he noticed that their three Green Lanterns of Earth and of the Justice League were hovering in front of the spacecraft and appear to be gesturing the Bio-Ship to follow them to the Watchtower.

During the past years, the League has been recruiting more heroes to join the Justice League when they found out that many villains were forming an army to take over the world the moment they found out the sixteen hours weren't going to Rimbor. And so, after many battles the heroes had fought in the first three years and many bloodshed has been made, the Justice League won the war. However, even though the war had ended four years ago, the villains still caused massive trouble and disasters to befall on Earth and the League were certain that they were going to try and revive their army once again or are forming a new army.

They then watch the three Green Lanterns circling the Bio-Ship and, with Hal Jordan leading the way and both John and Guy on both sides of the wings, lead the red-aircraft towards the Watchtower. The three Lanterns lead the Bio-Ship towards the bottom-left of the Watchtower, where they would at times bring in their own ships if the Zeta-Beam weren't working or whenever a new comer from space were to need help. Not wanting to waste another second on waiting, Flash, being his usual self, took off running towards the direction of their garage-like parking room, leaving the rest of the original seven behind at their spots. Quickly recovering from Flash's quick departure and seeing the three Lanterns and Bio-Ship no longer out in space, Wonder Woman walk towards the doors, with Hawkwoman at her side.

"Well, we better head down their and meet the kids." She insisted, getting the rest of the original seven to move out of their spots and to follow the two girls towards the garage-like room of the Watchtower.

Now at the Garage of the Watchtower...
By the time they were inside of the garage, they saw the Bio-Ship had landed on the ground instead of the hangers like some of the other ships are. They also noticed some new characteristics the red-aircraft now has: Instead of curved, the wings was edged and pointed, like the Batman's bat-symbol on his chest wings are. The head was also pointed, and the wings were behind the ship instead of up in front. The windows on the face of the ship was black, and the black marking on the ship was now in swirls that almost looks the mixture of wind and fire.

So, to the Justice League, it almost looks a lot like a giant red-bird with pointed-edge wings and fire-wind markings on its body. They then watched the hatch slowly being let down to the ground, indicating that the Bio-Ship is releasing her passengers that had ridden within her for many years. Most of the League held their breath when they heard slow footsteps coming out of the Bio-Ship, and were soon seeing the six youth they've sent off into space for seven years.

The first one out was a dark-skin male, who has blonde-hair that reached to the top of his shoulders and light-grey eyes.
He wore a black-vest that matched his black water-sweat pants, which almost made it a one suit that hugged his muscular body if it weren't for the black-belt with a golden-shark buckle around his waist. In the center of the vest was a golden-Triton, with white-lightning bolts behind the Triton, three diagonally going down to the left and another three going down diagonally to the right.
The black-markings on his arms that are shaped as eels, along with the gills shown on both side of his neck and the fins in-between his fingers, showed and indicated that he's an Atlantean.

The next was another male, who looks a lot like Clark in his teen years. His hair looks as though he hadn't grown it in years, though it showed that it has been cut at least around the back of his head and a bit on the top.
He wore a black-long sleeve shirt, with the red S-Shield in the center of the shirt. He also wore fingerless black-gloves, dark-blue jeans that hugged his legs, and black soldier-like boots.

To his left-side was a giant white wolf with golden-yellow eyes, who was a foot or two taller than the human. He looked very strong for a wolf, and his fur was very thick to make him look even more vicious. Even with long fur, however, even they weren't enough to hide the muscles shown underneath his legs. Luckily for him, the skin around the muscle-area appears to be getting better and are starting to close around the muscles.

At the ebony-male's right-side and arms wrapped around his right-arm, was a female, who has green-skin like Martian Manhunter, only they were a bit lighter than his, red-orange hair and amber-brown eyes. Her hair was short like the boys, which reached towards the end of her ears, but it was more wavy and thicker than the boys' hair.
She also wore a black-long sleeve shirt, but has a red-X on her chest that went over her shoulders and around her waist. Her black-pants also hugged her skinny-legs, though she has a red-belt with a yellow-buckle around her waist and black-boots that went up to her ankles.
To her own right is a rolling-ball of metal with a red orb-like eye in the center of the metal, though it wasn't truly an eye.

Next up was a male Ginger, who has green-eyes and light-pink skin, though his skin does seems a bit paler but are still in the pink-coloring area. His red-hair seemed longer than the other two boys, reaching down to cover his shoulder blades.
And unlike the other two boys, his choice of clothing was a one-piece uniform that's a lot like the Flash's costume. The only difference was that the suit only starts at the neck instead of the head and face, the lightning bolt on chest isn't surrounded by a white-circle and the bolt is black instead of yellow. The gloves and boots were also black and at the back of the boots were white-lightning bolts, with two white-lightnings on both sides of his gloves going from his thumb and pinky down to the near point of his elbows. The rest of the suit was dark-red, which was darker than Flash's colorful suit.
On top of his forehead was dark-red goggles with black-lenses, wrapped underneath his long red-hair instead of over his hair.

To his left and wrapped by his left-arm, was a female with light-tan skin and long-blonde hair that nearly reached to her hipbone-area, which was in a braid and a ponytail.
She wore a domino-mask that covers her eyes, with the lenses red instead of white. Even with her eyes covered, three black-tiger scratch markings came from her forehead down to her right-cheek. Her suit was mostly black, with oranges that looks to be images of scratch markings made by tigers on different part of the suit: One scratch that went around behind her neck, three that went over her shoulders, two large ones around both of her thighs, and three small trailing down at the midsection of her legs.
She also wore black-boots, which had tiger-paws on the front of the boots and the claw decoration at the edge of the boots. Her gloves were orange, with one black-scratch that went around her hand and three more black-scratches around around her arms. The end at her finger-gloves, either the girl or gloves themselves, seemed to have claws of their own, though they seem like ordinarily long-nails to a human from afar distance. In front of her chest, which was mostly orange with some black-claw marks off to the side, had three claw marks that went from the top-right down to the left-bottom, with a green-arrow pointed to the top left underneath the claw marks.
Hanging over her chest from behind her back was a dark-green bow, which looks a lot like Green Arrow's own bow. And hanging onto her right-shoulder was a black-quiver with orange-tiger paw prints, that held arrows that either had orange or green feathers at their ends

The last one to come out was another ebony-black hair boy, who looks almost exactly like the first black-hair teen in a younger version. However, his hair is longer than the older ebony, whose hair covered his right-eye and part of the right-side of his face, with the back of his hair of his head halfway towards the midsection of his shoulder blades that may need to be put in a ponytail if it were to get in the way.
Covering his eyes is also a Domino-mask, only it looks to be a mixture of blue and white, making the lenses look a lot like the moon when it goes blue. He wore a bodysuit like Batman, except the entire suit is completely black. And in front of his chest, not a bat, but a red-bird with its wings spread as if it were flying.
Around his waist is a black-utility belt, which more looks like one of those styling belt that would either wrap itself around his waist or slag down to one of his thigh. On his right-thigh looks a lot like a knife-holder that hunters would have when they're ready to strike or skin the animals they caught with their knives, only his looks to be holding a black-pole stick that shows to be one of his Escrima Sticks he would use in battle. He also wore black-boots like the other two, that didn't seem to reach even halfway to his knees or over his legs.

The Justice League stared completely surprised at the six young youths they had sent out into space all those years ago, but they were mostly startled by their appearance: It wasn't about their costume, or how they made their costume. In fact, it wasn't the costume they were referring that hasn't change. It was themselves, for they look exactly the same age when they left. Hell, they are the same from the day they left to go out into space to Rimbor. They did, however, seemed to have grown a few inches and Wolf seemed to have gotten a bit bigger from muscle-mass building up within his body, but they were still the same teens and preteen they came to know and had loved as their own family.

However, it wasn't just the team that didn't seem to change much, besides for the new costume and look. The team also found and see that the Justice League were very much the same, and are exactly like they were when they send them off into space.

Nobody could say a word, as the Justice League and Young Justice simply stared at each other. It didn't take long before somebody broke the silenced, which was Flash.

"What's with the new outfit?" The team turned to face one another, with the white wolf, obviously known as 'Wolf', turned to face who the Justice League know was Sphere. Once the team turned back to the Justice League, the Ginger was the first of them to speak, who was clearly Kid Flash. He let out a smirk.

"What do you expect from us? To stay in the sidekick costumes forever?" His psychical appearance made him appear the same sixteen year-old Speedster to the Justice League, but his voice was a bit low than they last heard, which made the redhead sound tired and that he hadn't slept in a good while. His words, however, felt like somebody just pinched Flash's heart when he heard those words coming out of his protégé. His own nephew! When none of the League responded to his question, the younger-Speedster's eyes widen in surprise. "Oh my god, you were expecting us to stay in those uniforms, didn't you?!"

"Speed!" This time, it was the Atlantean who spoke, which the League believe to be Aqualad. "That's enough." His voice appeared to sound the same to the Justice League, but the tone made him sound a bit old. "We did not come here to discuss of what we used to wear." The Ginger turned to the Atlantean for a few seconds, and then nodded his head.

"Right... Thanks, Kal." He whispered. "That was really silly of me, joking around when we came here for something else..." Flash wasn't believing what he was hearing from the still-sixteen year-old Ginger, who should've been twenty-one and perhaps the same height as him, that he would dismiss a joke and not try to make the others laugh from his joke, with some help from the Dark Knight's protégé. And speaking of the Boy Wonder, or better yet, the former Boy Wonder, the still-thirteen year-old was simply staring at who the League believe to be Superboy and Miss Martian. Flash then realized something that he didn't noticed until now.

"Hold on a sec. 'Speed'?" He asked, staring at his nephew in confusion. The younger-Speedster turned his gaze back to the Speedster he has idolized for as long as he could remember.

"Yeah, I'm Speed." He replied, folding his arms in front of his chest and giving him an annoyed look. "Got a problem with the new name?" When none of the adults answered, he then gave out another smirk. "Should've known you would want us to keep our old names, even after leaving Earth." Kaldur then stepped out in front of their group.

"During our travels in space while in our seven years departure, we've decided to change our names and our uniform when we may need new equipment for an even greater battle." He then placed his right-hand over his chest, covering the Triton and lightnings. "I am no longer Aqualad, for I am now known as Triton." Some of the Justice League were sort of surprised that the young youths would change their names, while the rest seemed to have known that they would've eventually change their names. Superman turned his gaze to the rest of the team, who had yet to say anything to them at all.

"What about the rest of you?" He asked, gaining some uncertain or irritated looks from the rest of the team. The four members of the Young Justice who hadn't said a word yet, along with Kaldur and Wally, turned their gazes to each other and the adults knew that they were having their own Telepathic Conversation from the way they would jerk their head, shrug their shoulders, their eyes moving and expressing different kinds of emotions. As they continued on their conversation, Wolf and Sphere gazed at the Justice League, which Sphere would make a bunch of odd sounds that actually matched Wolf's growls or snarls. After being quiet for a few minutes for the Justice League, they all finally nodded their heads and turned back to the adults. Once they were all in a line, which already started with Kaldur and with him and Wally stepped back, they told their names.

"You all used to know me as 'Superman's Clone' or 'Superboy', but my new name is 'Kon-El'." Superman's eyes widen in shock that Conner's new name is actually a Kryptonian name, and they didn't even got to finding a name for him when they were still bonding. Conner then used his left-hand to motion towards the other ebony-haired boy. "While out in space and back when you used to know him as 'Robin', he helped gave me a Kryptonian name, just as M'gann has given me my Earth-name, Conner." The female martian, who had her arms wrapped around the Kryptonian clone, then raised her right-hand in the air.

"My new name is 'Mistress Martian', which I got when my Psychic Powers became stronger." She replied, giving them her happy and welcoming smile on her face. Though he stayed behind the group, Wally had his arms wrapped around the female-blonde. The female placed her left-hand on top of the Speedster's hands connected at her hip, while she used her right to pull the domino-mask off of her face, revealing the grey-eyes and face that belonged to Artemis Crock.

"I'm not trying to be what my mother used to be, but my name is 'Tigress' and I had used the design idea from my mothers' old costume to help me with my name."

"Also the fact that she took down that Doȏm-Á'la on her own. Of course, with the help from Wolf, we were finally able to take care of that Witch Boy from the planet: Váilx'ulῤ." Wally added, pulling Tigress, who has revealed herself as Artemis, closer to his form and placing his chin on top of her right-shoulder. Whatever the Speedster just told them gotten the Justice League very confused.

"Doȏm-Á'la? Witch Boy? You mean Klarion and his familiar, Teekl?" J'onn asked, earning nods from the youth as an answer.

"Doȏm-Á'la is another language meaning 'Tiger', on the Planet: Tárjürma." Artemis explained. "Also, Wally, Teekl turned into a saber tooth tiger-cat."

"Yeah, but that cat seemed more of a tiger with long fangs instead of a saber tooth tiger-cat." While the young couple argued a bit about Teekl's transformation, the Justice League turned their attention to the youngest of the group.

"And what of you, if you are no longer Robin?" Wonder Woman asked the young preteen, who seemed to busy himself by petting Wolf and having a little conversation with Sphere. Through they couldn't see his eyes from the Domino-mask and his hair that covered his right-eye, they knew that he was staring at them but not in his usual happy-glance. Wolf let loose a low growl, until the former-Robin patted him on the head to silence his anger.

"Nightwing," was all he said. Most of the League were confused of the name the youngest has chosen, while Batman and Superman seemed to know why, though both are different reasons.

"Nightwing? What kind of a name is that?" Flash asked, not knowing very well on how to say the right words and when to not speak at all. Conner seemed to gave taken it the wrong way and looked ready to pounce on the older-Speedster, but he struggled to stay calm and let the teammates tell them the reason, which it was the former-Robin, himself.

"Back when Clark used to tell me Kryptonian Tales from his home planet, he told me of a Kryptonian who was only known as Nightwing." He explained. Batman then turned his gaze to Superman, and gave him a glare. "However, his story was only half the reason to why that's my name." The preteen's voice sounded exactly the way it was, though it did sound a bit low and sort of tiring, but it was still the same voice the League remembers. "On Krypton, Nightwing was disowned from his own family and eventually became a Legend Hero. However, I simply chose that name, for it's the closest name that could be compare to the Dark Knight, for he's known as 'The Night'. My name is simply another way to refer me as, 'The Wings of the Night'." After his explaining, both group went quiet once more and simply stared at each other until Flash, once again, broke the silence.

"Hey, why are we standing around here for?" He asked both group, putting on his cheerful smile. "We should be celebrating or something, now that the team are back from space! Which also mean that we're now in the clear, and Earth is once again a safe planet to be on!" While Flash talked to the League on what they should do, the team turned back to each other.

[He hasn't changed in the least, especially his annoying way to get people's attention] Wally

[Yeah, wonder why they don't seem to have aged during the seven years that passed.] Artemis

[I know why...] M'gann

All eyes of the Young Justice were now on the green martian, who held onto Conner's right-arm with both hands and now had her gaze lowered to the ground.

[It's my uncle. He, and I think with some help from Zatara and Doctor Fate, possibly cast a spell on all of them to stop aging while we were gone.] M'gann

Wally and Conner narrowed their eyes from M'gann's explaining, while Kaldur and Artemis were simply confused to why they would do so and Nightwing simply folded his arms in front of his chest and closed his eyes to think.

[So, they decided to copy us, huh?] Conner

[They didn't copied us, Kon-El.]Dick

Now the teams' eyes were turned to their youngest, who reopened his eyes through the Domino-mask and kept his arms crossed in front of his chest. He then turned his gaze to the green martian.

[M'gann, I don't think you were the one who stopped us from aging when we left Earth and I doubt that the doctors from the other planets did it themselves.] Dick

[What do you mean, Brother?] Kaldur

[I doubt M'gann can actually stop us from aging, especially on her own, for I think she would've only been able to stop aging us physically instead of doing it physically and mentally at the same time, and this is back when she was still learning to use her Psychic Powers and tried to make it perfect like her uncle. If I know J'onn, he would've been able to do so, but would need some help to make it permanently.] Dick

[So, even though Uncle J'onn could stop aging to happen and is an experienced martian, he would still needed help?] Wally

[That's what he just told us, Baywatch.] Artemis

[So, if M'gann isn't the one to stop us from aging... Are you saying that we've been stuck like this before we left Earth and J'onn was the actual cause of us to no longer age, not M'gann?] Conner

Nightwing took a quick glance at the Martian Manhunter, who was keeping his red-eyes on them and looked to be rather upset. The thirteen year-old then let out a loose sigh.

[I'm afraid so, Kon-El...]Dick

Some of the teammates lowered their gazes to the floor, while some, which are Artemis and Kaldur, stared down at their hands that they held up to stare at the palm and lines decorated to their skin.

[Isn't there a way to break the spell?] Artemis

Nightwing simply shook his head.

[Doctor Fate is an Ancient Sorcerer, and with the help from Zatara's Magic and J'onn's Psychic Powers, I doubt even they could undo what they just created... I'm sorry, but I don't think Etrigan would know of a spell or a mystic item that could cancel out the freeze-aging spell, and asking either Morgan Le Fay or Ra's Al Ghul is out of the question... We're completely stuck like this for the rest of our lives, you guys.] Dick

His answer to their problem and discovery of the cause of them no longer aging, especially with there not being a chance to undo the spell, has made an expecting void to form in their hearts. It was tragic news to the team, especially to the young couples: Conner and M'gann, Wally and Artemis, and Kaldur, who happened to have been in a relationship with Raquel before he left for Rimbor. He wasn't so sure if she was already in a relationship or had somebody else in her life while he was away, but he felt faith and hope that she still held on to his love for her and was still waiting for him to comeback.

The couples in the group were completely heartbroken, for they had stayed together for seven years and they should've became adults during the first two and the half years ago. They were really hoping on becoming adults, because after their lives had been endanger during a couple of terrifying wars, they each promised to their loved-ones that they would marry when they would either reach the age of adulthood or return to Earth. Now that they found out that they may never age again, their whole lives and futures are completely crushed. Nightwing stared sadly at his teammates, who had became his siblings during the seven and a half years of being a team. Though he hadn't thought much of his future or having a relationship, other than continuing on being a hero, he knew that whatever future he would've planned to do has been destroyed along with his friends' dreams.

They were caught up in their own world, that they didn't see Superman come and place a hand on Conner's shoulder, which caused the clone to jump and make the rest of his teammates jump from the moment. Once they were able to recover from their little jump, the Kryptonian went to placing his hand on the clone-Kryptonian right-shoulder, which he was finally calmed and didn't jump from the physically contact.

"Come on, you guys." He told the team, gently pulling Conner and M'gann, who was still wrapped in the clone's left-arm, towards the doors and the rest of the Justice League members. "Lets head towards the Hall of Justice. You all must be dying to be back on Earth." It may seem sound normally to the Justice League, but the team actually felt very uncomfortable when he said the word 'dying'. As the adults lead the way towards the Main Room and to their Zeta-Beams, the younger-heroes had their own conversation again.

[Does he mean that literally, or was he being sarcastic?] Wally

[I don't know, and I really don't care right now.] Artemis

[Hey, guys? What do you think happened while we were gone?] M'gann

[What do you mean, M'gann? We've been keeping tabs on them for four years.] Conner

[I know, but I was just wondering... What happened during the first three years? We weren't able to see what had happened during the first three years of our departure, until the Hunglăriőnş from Ţüx'őmblă helped us installed new equipments to Bio and for our weapons and that was when we were able to see what was going on at Earth.] Dick

They didn't stop their walking until they were in front of the three Zeta-Tubes that the Justice League and Young Justice had used to get to the Watchtower, though the team used it for a few times when they were still living on Earth. As Batman set up the coordinates to the Hall of Justice for one of the Zeta-Beams, the teams were given the moment to continue on their conversation.

[You don't think they... Well, ya know...] Wally

[We do not know for sure, though there may as well be a chance that they had.] Kaldur

[They couldn't had replaced us! They wouldn't forget about us!] Conner

[However, they would've had new protégés if the League had no choice but to form a new team for either reconnaissance missions or investigations that they, themselves, wouldn't been able to do.] Dick

They then turned their heads to the Justice League, who were slowly going through the Zeta-Beam one by one.

"RECOGNIZED: SUPERMAN, 0-1; WONDER WOMAN, 0-3!"

They then turned back to each other.

[It's most likely, and very possible, that they may have new sidekicks that had replaced us.] Wally

"GREEN LANTERN I, 0-5; FLASH, 0-4; GREEN LANTERN II, 1-4!"

[We'll get to that later, but for now, we'll have to go and follow them.] Dick

"MARTIAN MANHUNTER, 0-7; GREEN LANTERN III, 2-3!"

Batman was the only Justice League left, who had the computer set for the coordinates for the Hall of Justice for himself and the rest of the team. As he slowly made his way towards the Zeta-Beam, he ceased his walking and stood in front of his protégé. He seemed to be just staring at the boy to the rest of the team, but the thirteen year-old knew he was searching for any scar-wounds that he was holding and that could still be hurting him.

Are you injured?

The boy simply turned his head towards the Zeta-Tubes.

Later...

Nodding his head, the Dark Knight lifted his gaze to the rest of the team.

"The computer still knows you," he said. "Simply walk into the beam, and you'll find yourself at the Hall of Justice." And with that said, he made his way towards the Zeta-Beam and disappeared into the flashing light.

"BATMAN, 0-2!"

Now with the Justice League gone for the moment, the teens let out deep sighs of relief, as if getting rid of whatever was inside of them before they would go through the Zeta-Beams and meet up with their mentors. They then turned to each other, knowing that there were some things they were gonna have to discuss with the League, but many secrets they must keep from them, which includes their old-friends and family on Earth.

For now, that time is gonna have to wait.

TBC

I know Flash wasn't one of the sixteen hours, but the six who went missing our one the heroes who helped created the Justice League. So, in mine, Flash also went missing for 16 hours, so that the whole original seven will be held accounted for instead of only having six of them.

If you're wondering about the Bruce having his own elevator and using a key to use it, it's on BTAS episode 19 called "Prophecy of Doom". As for Sarah, she's his secretary on Season 4 for the episode, "Never Fear".

For those who are wondering the Bat-Siblings age-thing, I've decided to have them older than Dick, even though it may seem dumb. Anyway, all will be explained and all planets and races(besides Rimbor and Kroloteans) are all made up, along with some other information like 'Green Lantern, 2-3'.

Also, if you like to draw out the Team and their new appearances, then I'll allow you to do so.

R&R