Chapter 3
Gotham City
22:08 PM
November 13th 2010
Robin and Kid Flash were on a rooftop looking over the city of Gotham as they converse on social topics and eat candy bars Kid Flash brought with him
"OK I have to give this to you; getting out of the base was a good idea" Robin admitted as he ate his candy bar
"Told you. We needed the fresh air" Kid Flash replied as he finished his candy bar "So then can we count on anyone doing crimes tonight?" he asks as he licks his gloves for leftover flavour from the candy bar
"Yeah but big time bad guys don't usually do anything big at night. Normally criminal wannabes or psychopaths like the Joker" Robin answered as he finished his candy bar
"Ugh what's wrong with them. No guts no glory am I right?" Kid Flash states earning a frown but smirk from Robin
"So you want villains like the Penguin or Scarecrow to rob a bank just so you can amuse yourself?" Robin proclaimed with Kid Flash looking away with comedic guilt
"Well…no" he starts out "Just for tonight" Kid Flash finishes with Robin letting out a laugh
"So how's being sixteen?" Robin asked
"It's OK, I can finally apply for my Learner's Permit so there's that" Kid Flash replies, now surprised by Robin giving him a confused stare "What?"
"Can't you run faster than the speed of sound why do you need to drive?" Robin asked his best friend who shrugged
"You can leap off tall buildings to get to places here. Why do you need a butler?" Kid Flash replied with another question
"Touché" Robin admitted as they both laugh "Want to move someplace else?" Robin asked as he pulls out his grappling gun
"Sure. Race ya!" Kid Flash agreed before he zooms off the building as Robin follows suit by firing his grappling gun and jumps off the roof and swings onto another and jumps of that one and shoots his grappling gun to another building and does a quadruple flip to land on the roof of a tall building with Kid Flash arriving after his landing
"Show off" Kid Flash scoffed as Robin just grinned with both of them continuing to trek througout the city
The four Titans arrive in Gotham with the help of Kid Flash's super speed and they now go into an alleyway as Robin tells them that they need to keep a low profile until they meet Batman and the other members of the League. This part of the plan made three of the four Titans stiffen a little bit by the mere thought of asking for help from their former mentors.
For Speedy; possibly meeting with Green Arrow again was more of a inconvenience and it was easy for him to talk to his mentor than the others. Sure he didn't exactly like talking to GA most times but they had a decent relationship compared to Robin and Aqualad's mentors.
For Aqualad meeting with Aquaman again; disturbed him. He knew that this world's Aquaman may differ from his but didn't make it easy to see the King of Atlantis again. Especially after what he did to him!
For Robin he was outright angred and extremely peeved of ppossibly meeting with another Batman! He mentally kicked himself for proposing to ask for Batman for help but it was the only chance they got if he lived in this world and Robin kept in mind that it was for the good of his stranded friends and for his other friends back home. No matter how much he hates it!
With Kid Flash his relationship with the Flash was great! They barely fought and worked well together during his tenure as his partner and he didn't exactly have butterflies in his stomach or lingering resentment of possibly meeting his inter-dimensional Uncle like the others.
The four were now jumping a fense and using a fire escape to reach the roof of a building which was easy for Robin as he did this for years. As the Boy Wonder landed on the roof he was followed by Speedy and then Kid Flash who was holding Aqualad and they go up to the ledge with Robin
"So how do you plan on getting to Batman anyhow?" Speedy asked to Robin who was gazing at the city
"We have to search for the Bat-Signal" Robin replies and he turns to face the others "If it's not here than Batman isn't" Robin summed up as he thinks this is the most logical and easiet solution to find Batman instead of locating the Bat-Cave
"So let me find it?" Kid Flash volunteered "I'll be back" Kid Flash zoomed off and returns five seconds later "I found it's on the other side of the city" the speedster informed his friends
"Looks like Batman does exist here and we can safely assume so does the Justice League" Aqualad summed up
Robin was slightly irratated by the fact Batman does exist here and he will still have to face him but was also relieved that someone who he can depend on was here. At least for the time being.
"Lets go" Robin commanded as he leaps of the building and whips out his grappling gun and shoots it to a building, Speedy shoots his wire arrow and slides on it with his bow as Kid Flash grabs Aqualad and zips towards the Bat-Signal
Gotham City
22:34 PM
November 13th 2010
"Alright KF its been a fun night but I need to turn in early" Robin states as he gets off the Bat-Signal and Kid Flash moans
"Oh alright, I guess I'll go back home now too" Kid Flash complied with Robin. But as they both walk away they hear a siren go off and as they both go to the ledge they see two white vans drive by with the Police in pursuit. The Police cars tires were unfortunately shot down by one of the guys in the passenger seats with a hand gun and they got away as a result
"Looks like the night is still young!" Kid Flash declared as he grabs Robin and races to see where the white vans are heading which led them to an abandoned warehouse holding Riddler and his goons loading stacks of money into other vans and bags.
"OK its the Riddler, we should be able to handel this" Robin deduced as he and Kid Flash are on the roof of the warehouse
"Then let's go dude!" Kid Flash enthusiastically says as Robin jumps in through the window; landing on one of the grunts which he flips off of and kicks another resulting in that grunt falling into another two. As the other men get out their weapons only to have Kid Flash knocking them all out as he goes after some more
Riddler seeing this he begins to run away to an empty van; with the Boy Wonder landing in front of him
"Riddle me this?" Robin asks the Riddler as he gets up "What's green and purple but covered in black and red?" Riddler goes to attack him with his cane but Robin counters that with one of his batons and uses the other to strike the Riddler's leg making him flinch and that gives Robin the opening to kick the Riddler across the room and Robin landing on him
"Me! When I land on your sorry butt!" Robin reveals as he grins and looks up to see several of the Riddler's goons surrounding him and Kid Flash with submachine guns
"KF!" Robin shouts out
"Got it!" the speedster responded as he uses his superspeed to disarm the Riddler's goons but as he runs; one of the men used one of the vans to drive into Kid Flash's path which doesn't hit him but stirs him of his path and he crashes into the wall in order to avoid it
This made Robin go to Kid Flash's side and they see themselves surronded by the Riddler and his armed grunts who all looked ready to get piece of them!
"Riddle me this brats?" the Riddler tauntingly asked "Whats red, black and yellow but covered in metal?" this made the two heroes scowl "You two ! In a couple seconds! FIRE!" the Riddler commanded
Before the grunts could shoot the roof above them exploded and through the smoke it created; a two figures came through and knocked away several of the goons with a bo staff and then the other figure shot two arrows to the ground which caused a small explosion; knocking away the other grunts making Robin and Kid Flash stunned. Who could they be?
"Artemis?" Kid Flash spoke out as he got up with the mysterious figure with the bow coming towards them. With him looking like someone who they knew would never dress like that!
"Nope. Just friends" the ginger haired archer replied as he shot another arrow taking down several grunts
"Red Arrow?" Robin asked not beliveing that the archer would be dressed in his Speedy garbs. Or at least what looked like his old uniform
"Nope. Speedy" Speedy replied to two shocked heroes
"No way. You can't be Speedy!" Kid Flash retorted
"Well I am and if you want to live. Shut up and fight!" Speedy answered back making Kid Flash scowl but he zooms off to take down some bad guys only to find out they have been knocked out and been rounded up by another guy who was: another Kid Flash!
"Who are-" Kid Flash spurted out only to be cut off by his look-alike
"Ask me later we have work to do" the look-alike ordered as he took off with the dazed Kid Flash following suit
"OK who are you guys?" Robin ordered not asked Speedy as they wrangle the goons with Robin's rope and Speedy's constrictor arrow
"We'll tell you later" Speedy responded as he grabs Robin and uses his wire arrow to pull them up as a jets of water were hitting several of the remaining grunts which was done by a guy in a blue unitard. Which made Robin even more confused. When Speedy saw the job was done he let go and he and Robin landed with Robin now getting impatient
"OK who are you guys?" Robin barked out before he realized that Riddler was behind but before he could do anything; Riddler was knocked unconscious by another hero. One who looked like an older Robin!
"What?" Robin croaked out as he saw his older doppleganger
"We'll you but we need to go to someplace quiet" older Robin announced as sirens could be heard and they all escaped from the scene as the cops came in.
This was going to be an eventful night.
So now we finally get the two dimensional teams meet...at least some of them. And I know that riddle that Robin used was basically the riddle Jason Todd used in Under the Red Hood; I just thought it will be a nice reference.
