Chapter 7

Mount Justice

08:32 AM

November 14th 2010

"Explain now!" Batman demanded the Team as he saw four individuals dressed like three of the original sidekick's and one in a unitard?

"Well…" Rob was the one to take the bullet as everyone is too scared from the two simple words to answer. But he is stopped by his older counterpart stepping in

"We're called the Teen Titans we're inter-dimensional heroes from another universe and counterparts to most of the young heroes in this room" Robin stopped to point at the dimensional twins in the Cave "We came here because we seek your…" his blood turned cold as he utters out "..help to return home"

Whatever Batman was thinking was anyone's guess but the two birds worked with him long enough to know he was deciding to believe the Titans' story or what he was hearing was complete bull!

When he was called in here he didn't know what to expect. He just got back from his off-world mission early and he gets a message from Black Canary about the Team needing his help. This was far from what he had predicted! For what he knew they were imposters!

"Why should I believe you?" the Dark Knightly sternly asked the Titans' Robin as M'gann stepped in

"I read their Kid Flash's mind they're telling the truth" she explained as this doesn't change Batman's demeanour

"And you bring them back to the Cave without League authorization!" Batman spoke which made most of the young heroes mentally sweat as Rob stepped forward

"Green Arrow and Black Canary were here and let the Titans stay" he announced "Also these are our universal counterparts, except for their Aqualad. But the rest are just different ages and lives" Rob explained to his mentor with his face not changing as he looks at the older Robin; who was staring at him as well

Whatever crossed between them was anyone's guess but for Batman it was just a look. He was just told that there is another Dick Grayson in this room and he was just staring at him; no hostility, no disbelief in his eyes, not even a Bat-Glare. But why did this Robin look at him like he was the plague? It was true although no one else could sense it but Robin was staring at him like it was a standoff. Just watching him like he was about to attack him; observing what he'd say and do next.

"I'll be back" Batman told them as he left the Cave

'02- Batman'

As soon as he left the Titans sighed in relief as they were tired already from that little interrogation of the Dark Knight and he didn't even do anything to them. The Team and Robin looked at them but understood they're exhaustion.

"What first time being interrogated by Batman?" Wally jokingly asked

"No but it won't ever get old" Speedy answered back

"What do you think he'll do next?" Kid Flash asked the others as he drank a bottle of water

"He'll get Martian Manhunter here to read our minds; more specifically mine, since Miss Martian's act isn't good enough for him! And when he'll get his answer, he'll get our DNA samples to be sure and even after that he'll still treat us like imposters!" Robin calmly explained which earned him a few quick glances.

"You think ?" Garth asked his fellow Titan as he looked at him

"No. I know" he simply replies as the rest just happens to wait for the Dark Knight to arrive and all presented themselves when he did.

'02- Batman'

'07- Martian Manhunter'

When they heard Martian Manhunter's designation called they all knew instantly what Batman was planning just as Robin predicted.

J'onn was surprised at the sight of the inter-dimensional heroes but he regained his composure.

"So I assume you already know why I'm here" he says as the Titans nod their heads

"But Uncle J'onn I already read their minds there's no need to…" M'gann pleads to her uncle but is stopped by the older Martian

"I know M'gann but this necessary so that me and the League will know and trust them"

Robin scowled at that. 'So that the League will know'! More like Batman would know!

"So who shall I do?" the Martian asked the Titans and just before Kid Flash could put his hand up, Robin intervened

"I'll do it" this made the other Titans glance at him and they huddle up together to have a private conversation; only Superboy able to hear them

"Dude are you sure?" Kid Flash whispered to the Boy Wonder

"Yeah, I don't want to but it has to be done" he grimaced "Batman won't trust us until he gets proof and who better than me….even though he won't stop here"

Robin broke the huddle and went to both J'onn and Batman whom only stared at him

"Just so you; I will only read the parts you want to show me and nothing else" J'onn explained as this Robin slightly more relaxed

"OK" he gave his blessing as Martian Manhunter eyes glowed green as he saw Robin's memories. He saw a the Titans Tower, Robin's team, the Brotherhood of Evil and the Portal incident. His eyes return to normal as he is done reading the Boy Wonder's mind.

"He is telling the truth, his memories are real and he and his team have crossed universes" J'onn proclaims to Batman. No one else was really shocked but Batman's facial expression was still the same

"How did this happen" he simply asked

"We were fighting some villains from a fallen evil organisation who were using a portal to free their captured comrades and it malfunctioned and sent us here" Robin made sure not to mention that he had a hand in the malfunction as he did not want to be scolded by another Batman who was in deep thought until he spoke

"Kid Flash go and get your goggles and use them on the Titans"

Wally instantly complied and raced off to go fetch his goggles and came back with them and put them on. He was surprised to see the Titans faintly radiating?

"The radiation leaking from them is similar to the transient radiation made by a boom tube; which explains how you guys managed to cross universes!" Kid Flash analyzed as this made the Team shocked, J'onn and Batman nod at having their theory proven and the Titans confused.

"What's a boom tube?" Garth asked with everyone staring at him

"You're kidding right?" Artemis asked him as Kid Flash and Speedy sheepishly admit

"Actually I don't know what that is either"

"What about you?" Connor asked Robin who simply turns his head to avoid the embarrassment as Batman swiped his hand and a holographic screen appeared showing a father box.

"A boom tube is an inter-dimensional corridor that is generated by a father box which is what your enemies used to create the portal" Batman explained which made Robin interject

"The portal device that was used on us was completely different than a 'father box' as it was simply a remote and two spires"

"I never said it was a father box, as Kid Flash analyzed the portal's radiation to be similar to the radiation made by a boom tube"

"Then what are you implying?"

"The portal must have been modelled after a father box; was your criminals associated with anyone who may have possessed one?" the Dark Knight asked the older Boy Wonder

"No it's impossible. A father box should be out of their reach to get and seems like something the Justice League would have made sure to destroy or confiscate but yet again anything is possible" Robin was in deep thought after this and so was Batman

"The child seemed technologically minded; perhaps he just built the machine but someone helped him. Perhaps someone from the evil brotherhood?" J'onn stepped into the conversation using knowledge he gained when he saw the portal incident, but he mispronounced the Brotherhood's name making everyone confused. Who were the evil brotherhood?

"Brotherhood of Evil, dude" Speedy corrected J'onn's mistake and slipped out as Batman stared at him

"Except for a few select indivisuals no one was that technologically minded" Robin thought back to the long list of villains he thought. Brother Blood; no, Professor Chang; maybe but no, Brain; could have done it but he was in custody. Robin quickly had a realization "What if someone had access to a father box and asked Gizmo to analyze it; but then Gizmo had the idea to copy it's components and mechanism to build his own teleportation device and bring back the Brotherhood of Evil" he announced to the Titans; while the others were just engaged how he came across that possible theory.

"Yeah but who?" Garth asked Robin who was in deep thought

"Maybe it was a Justice League villain" Kid Flash proposed; the Titans completely ignoring the other heroes in the room

"No they wouldn't have went to Gizmo; they wouldn't have known him" Robin replied now in deeper thought.

Who could it have been?

It had to be someone who was aquainted with the Brotherhood and H.I.V.E Five.

Someone who was close to the Justice League.

Someone who had some kind of connections to posses a father box.

Who!

Wait!

Robin's mind went back to a few months ago; when he was tracking a criminal and seen him completely go off the grid. Appearing in this location and disappearing to the next in just a few short hours. And now he's completely disappeared.

"Slade!" Robin muttered out in such venom and made his face scowl and grimace. The two Leaguers and the Team looked at him like he was going to go on but the Titans looked at him in disbelief.

"What dude are you sure?" Speedy asked the angered Boy Wonder

"Yeah didn't he go off the radar a few months ago?" Garth stated which made the Team confused

"Exactly! I used to think it was strange how he kept appearing and disappearing from place to place but now it makes sense" Robin stated and then explained "He must have been able to get a father box and used it for his own gain but had Gizmo analyze it for him before he used it"

"Excuse me but who's Slade?" M'gann asked the Titans who were confused

"What Slade isn't in your universe?" Kid Flash asked the Team who all nodded

"Are you talking about Slade Wilson; Deathstroke" Batman asked Robin who was confused

"Who?" now everyone was puzzled of what was going on. Batman explained to Robin who Deathstroke was; explaining him to be a high priced assassin who occasionally worked with other villain factions and brought up an image of him. The costume was different but Robin knew the colours and the mask (which was cloth and not metal?) 'Deathstroke' was similar but nothing at all like Slade but there was more important things to think about.

"Well Slade is a manipulative, cold blooded dictator whose the scum of the planet who doesn't care who he has to step on to achieve his goals!" Robin says this with such intense hatred it causes some members of the Team to back off except for Superboy, Kaldur and Rob. The Titans knew how much Robin hated Slade so they were fine. M'gann and J'onn were somewhat empaths so they could pick up on emotions without having to read minds; so they could feel Robin's hatred.

Batman just looked at him; on the outside he looks the same but on the inside he's wondering what Deaths- Slade could have done to Robin for him to hate him so much. Since this looked personal.

"What'd he do to you?" Wally boldly asked the seething Boy Wonder who only stared at him

"Oh Slade is Robin's nemesis" Kid Flash answeresd innocently which made sense for Robin's hatred but made the Team and somewhat the two Leaguers; flabbergasted?

"Dude Deathstroke's your nemesis!" Wally whispered to the shocked yonger Robin as he was surprised at having a nemesis. And it's Deathstroke! He didn't know if it was cool or not; as Deathstroke was an assassin he thankfully hasn't met...yet. Why would he be enemies with this Robin?

Batman was thinking along the lines of his Robin's thoughts; why would his protege though an inter-dimensional counterpart have a nemesis? Batman tries his damnedest to keep Robin away from these types of villains; including the Team, to save them, to protect them. It made him wonder what the hell his inter-dimensional counterpart was doing for letting Robin gain a mortal enemy? But from the older Robin having a team and the occassional scowls aimed towards him; he probably guessed that Batman wasn't in his life anymore; as his mentor or something else happened?

"So you think he's responsible for the portal device's creation?" Rob asked his older counterpart as he got over his initial shock of having an inter-dimensional nemesis

"I don't think, I know!" Robin answered back in confidence

"So Slade unintensionally gave Gizmo the idea for a transporter. Still doesn't help us get back home!" Speedy spoke up with mild frustration

"Maybe if we get our hands on a father..." Kid Flash was cut off by J'onn

"That is not possible, as a father box is hard to come by and no Justice League member has possesion of one

"Not to mention the father box is recorded to only open up corridors in between locations not planes of reality! If we try to mess with who knows what would happen" Batman warned them as this made the Titans worried

"So there's no way of getting back home?" Garth asked; scared of the possibility of not seeing his friends again. There was silence from the two Leaguers.

"Well?" Speedy irratingly asked not liking where this is going

"I don't know, but I assure you we'll try; we just need your patience" J'onn told the Titans as most of them huffed in aggrevation but complied as being angry wasn't going to help.

"I'll be back later, I need to check on a few things and when I'm done I'll come back" Batman walked towards the zeta tube but before he left he commanded "No one goes anyway until I arrive!" and with that he dissappeared

'02- Batman'

Robin was surprised of Batman not attempting to get a DNA sample of his or the other Titans but he chalked up he'll do it later when things weren't at stake and he gets an opportunity..or maybe he already did it?


Batcave

09:11 AM

November 14th 2010

Batman appeared through his zeta tube and walked straight towards the Bat-computer and placed a single strand of hair he had Martian Manhunter telekinetically pull out from the other Robin's head, into his DNA scanner and while the results were loading to find a match, Alfred appeared behind Bruce.

"Back so soon Master Bruce?" he calmly asked Bruce who pulled off his mask

"The mission ended earlier than expected and I was called into the cave" he simply replied as the results were still loading

"Was it perhaps something to do with Master Dick's new friends?" he rhetorically asked; already knowing the answer

"So he told you" Bruce stated not so much asked the witty butler

"Yes...and it looks like he wasn't lying" Alfred replies and states as the computer shows that Robin's DNA matches Dick's DNA; confirming their story "What's your move now?" as Bruce was silent for a moment

"I don't know. Dick tell you anything else?" Bruce asked making Alfred remember breakfast but he chose to withdraw that piece of information and used it as leverage

"I'll tell you as soon as you get yourself into bed and get at least three hours rest" Alfred ordered the Dark Knight who was fighting drowziness for the entirety of when he was at the cave

"No I need to find a way to get them back home" Bruce argued in a fight that Alfred always manages to win

"What you need is rest. Universe hopping is too big a task for a full grown man whose being told to go to bed by his butler" Alfred fired his witty remarked and got Bruce up so he can go to bed as we still see the Bat-compuer read;

Dick Grayson- Match


Well now that I'm finally starting to get my new time table; it's wednesday and friday's I get the most time to write these stories so they'll probably be released on those days. Really could've have done a better job with the title but I fell into that hole on my own.