Operation Magic- Part II


The Team were… different.

That was all she was going to say on the matter.

It wasn't like she hated them, no, she really liked them. It was the fact they kept staring at her weirdly like she was going to turn into Batman and yell at them for mouthing of about him.

Because honestly, Kid Flash would not shut up about the old man.

Honestly, she liked them- they had their own special thing. They worked as a cohesive group well and looked very comfortable talking about anything with each other, and anything really meant anything.

Some things you just can't unhear.

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No matter how hard you try.

She noticed the couples generally stuck together, probably because they felt more comfortable with each other, and their double lives demanded constant vigilance and was time consuming, so free time with the Team was all they got.

Kid Flash and Artemis fought like crazy, but always ended up making out and laughing by the end of it. Superboy, or as he wished to be called- Conner, enjoyed watching the static on the T.V. for some personal reason she wasn't going to pry into… yet.

Miss Martian, or as she insisted to be called- M'gann or Megan (it's an Earth name), loved to cook and try different recipes, Barbara decided to help her, which was a lot of fun and very messy.

Rocket and Kaldur hung out by the small pool, or the underwater entrance the cave had. She had smirked when she heard them laughing and splashing around in the water, calling Tula to join them.

The only two that weren't accounted for were Robin, surprise, and Zatanna- which was something she expected after they had shared an extremely long conversation that resulted in Robin scratching the back of his neck, and a visible blush settling in on his cheeks.

She had scoffed at the sight, and the tabloids think he's going to be the next Bruce Wayne, another billionaire playboy that will throw his money any chance he gets to impress the dressed. Dick Grayson may be smooth, but Robin was far from the player type.

But that didn't matter… her plan was already set in fast motion- and it wasn't stopping until it reach the designated area.


Earlier that day…


"M'gann?" Batgirl asked, rolling the dough to their bread with the pin.

"Yeah? Do you think we should add more flour? This dough doesn't seem right." She wondered aloud, absent-mindedly paying attention to the new member of the Team.

"What's up with Robin and Zatanna?"

M'gann immediately turned around wide eyed, and looked at her with a hush-up look, "What do you know?"

Barbara shrugged and kept rolling her dough, "Nothing much, just that he's my best friend outside of costume and he's been crushing on someone for weeks. I know for a fact it's not someone in Gotham."

"OMG." The Martian gushed, "I knew it! They did have a secret thing, well not a secret thing, more like a secret crush. But they both like other, doesn't that mean they should go out, or do they just keep blushing at each other?"

"M'gann."

"Oh? Right- sorry, I babble a lot. Hello Megan," she said hitting her forehead, "don't freak Batgirl out."

She offered a small smile and continued on her thought, "I'm just saying, we need a plan to get them together. They look like a cute couple, and it's bound to happen- and if it doesn't I will set the Joker after him."

"Y-you can do that?" M'gann shakily asked, getting a bit more worried by the second.

"I could. But then I'd be in so much trouble with Batman." She grumbled, "What's up with them? You haven't answered my question."

"Right, um… they both like each other- because that's obvious. It all started last year when the Team was first formed. Zatara, who's now Dr Fate, brought Zatanna to meet the Team and he immediately liked her. You could probably ask Batman for the camera footage," she said as a side note, "anyway- they sort of flirted- I think, I'm to sure what they did- then on New Year's they kissed, but decided to stay friends. Then this year it's all a b-"

"Wait, What?" The red head screeched, swiftly dropping the rolling pin and turning to look at the Martian.

"It's all a bit weird?" She said, not sure what she was waiting for. Bat's and their secrecy…

"New Year's?" She asked, "You said they kissed!"

"Oh that, yeah- they kissed. Well technically Zatanna kissed Robin, but that doesn't matter. It was after we defeated the Light and turned all the League back to normal." She said, remembering the war zone they had created and stopped.

"He's crazier than I thought." She mumbled to herself, putting a reminder in her head to slap him later.

"What are you going to do?" M'gann asked, one eyebrow cocked up.

"We are going to form our own elite team." She triumphed, "You, me, Raquel, Artemis and Tula. Maybe if we can get some of the guys to join we'll have the Team."

"What's the elite team for?"

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"We are going to get Robin and Zatanna together."


Back in the Batcave she found Dick no longer wearing those ridiculous sunglasses, talking to Bruce, who for once wasn't suited up to go out on patrol. This had to be good if the Dark Knight wasn't tending to his city.

She tried to stand a distance away from them, not to disturb the conversation going on between father and son. But she wanted to know what they were saying.

Trying to test her skills on lip reading she translated it to:

"Bruce, I need to get my toothbrush."

"Tick, nothing is stopping you from getting a flower."

"Put it is a necessity."

"Barbara." The voice of Bruce called out to her, drat- and she thought she could go without being seen. Moving out of her spot and walking towards the two with a cheery smile she greeted them,

"Bruce, Dickie-bird. Whatcha talkin' 'bout?" She said innocently.

"The Team, Dick says you had a good first day." Bruce said smiling at her, which was something that didn't happen often.

"Yeah, why are you smiling?" She asked, suddenly feeling uneasy and freaked out.

"Nothing, can I have a word with you later? Dick, hit the showers, you stink." He teased his ward. Who rolled his eyes and walked out, eager to wipe of the grime from his food fight with Zatanna.

"You wanted to speak to me?" She asked, taking off her ridiculous sunglasses.

"Did you figure it out?" He asked in full seriousness, his face changing into the face of Batman.

"Yes, target is acquired and I have enlisted help from members of the Team for Operation Magic." She reported, just as seriously as Bruce had.

"Excellent work, target is who I suspected?"

"It is, Zatanna Zatara- resident magician of the Team." She relayed, standing completely still as a soldier.

"I knew it," he mumbled under his breath, "Plan?"

"Oh, we've got a plan." She smiled evilly, which received a nod from Bruce, "M'gann revealed treasured information to me today, I want to see the footage."

"What footage?" He asked.

"New Year's Eve fight, she said something happened after the fighting on New Year's." Barbara said, surprised he hadn't seen it.

"I'll bring it up now," he mumbled typing on his laptop furiously, searching through the numerous security footage he held on the Batcomputer. Searching for time specifics and different angles, he brought four angles up. One of the fight that happened between him, Robin, Superboy and Superman, the other of the upper deck, the next of the general area and the last of the main space.

Pressing play for all of them Barbara watched intensely as Batman landed a kick on Robin, flinging him all the way down to the lower floor. She couldn't believe it, he had attacked Robin.

Turning to Bruce who was looking at every single panel but that one she asked him, "You attacked him?"

"Yes." Came the heavy reply.

She turned back and continued watching, the fight was over- the Team had won. She listened as the computer announced the new year, as per tradition Conner and M'gann shared a kiss, Artemis and Wally looked like they were having a good time, Rocket kissed Aqualad on the cheek and Robin and Zatanna were heavily making out.

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Wait!

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What?

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She pressed the keys for a rewind and watched it closely, as did Bruce. Zatanna tugged at his arm and brought him in for a big ol' smooch.

Damn, she thought, he actually has game.

"Did you know about this?" She asked in shock, still not believing her eyes.

"No." came the prolonged reply of the guardian. How could he have not seen this? He had gone through the footage thousands of times, or perhaps it was the fact he only watched the fight.

"Wow."

"Wow indeed."

"I think I'm going to go now," she nervously laughed, "See ya tomorrow Bruce!"

Leaving Batman all alone in a cave with a big screen showing him his ward and the girl he promised his friend he would look after making out on New Year's Eve. Maybe the papers weren't wrong on his wards growing 'player' image.

He would have to talk to him about it.

He would also have to get Black Canary to talk to Zatanna about it.


M'gann knocked on Zatanna's door lightly, after hearing the faint 'come in' she entered and shut the door behind her.

"Hey, M'gann." Zatanna greeted, "You have a reason for wanting to talk to me instead of making out with Conner?" She teased, M'gann blushed.

"Actually, I felt like having a girl talk. You know, like we used to." She suggested, with a pleading grin on her face.

"That sounds nice, but only," She paused for a dramatic effect, "If you brought the ice cream."

M'gann smiled warmly, bringing the tubs from behind her back and producing two spoons for them.

"You're the best, M'gann." She said, before eagerly taking her tub and her spoon. "So what do you want to talk about?"

"I don't know, how about we talk about you." She suggested kindly.

Zatanna shrugged, "If you want to, but I don't have much to say."

"Who are you crushing on right now?" M'gann asked quickly. The question surprised Zatanna, resulting in the harsh coughing and thumping sounds as she tried to get the ice cream stuck in her throat out.

"Sorry," she coughed, "wasn't prepared for a question that quickly. And to answer your question, what makes you think I'm crushing on anyone."

"The fact that you and a certain bird always flirt with each other, duh." M'gann squealed in delight as Zatanna's cheeks began to redden.

"Ok, so maybe I have a tiny crush on Robin. But I'm pretty sure it's one sided." She admitted sadly.

"Are you kidding?" She screeched, "He adores you!" Zatanna blushed deeply, she couldn't believe she was having this conversation with M'gann, who was very sweet, but had no idea how normal relationships worked.

"Wow, M'gann." She deadpanned, "you are hilarious."

"I'm not kidding!" She cried, unable to accept that Zatanna didn't think she had what it took to be the apple of Robin's eye, or would it be glasses? Never mind.

Her point was Zatanna was in every right to be the one girl that had stolen Robin's trolling heart. She had become like a partner in crime with him, helping him pull of pranks that featured her greatly, she had talked to him when no one else- Wally who was 'busy' making out with his girlfriend- would. Plus, they completed each other- and that was just swoon worthy.

But when Batgirl had arrived with them she had thought that the reason Robin hadn't made a move on Zatanna was because he had a crush on the girl bat. Her fears were squashed when the new addition to the Team invited, literally, the whole team to help her to get Robin and Zatanna together.

"Aha, so what's going on between you and Conner?" She smirked, "Things are looking very serious between you guys."

Her smirk widened after seeing M'gann's blushing cheeks.

Success- she had successfully diverted M'gann's attention to something more… juicy.

"What do you mean?" She replied with a higher voice, trying (miserably failing) to hide her obvious embarrassment.

"Just the fact that you can never, and when I say never I mean never, keep your hands off each other." She elaborated, "And the fact that I heard something crash in Conner's room the other night. Fact two- the walls in the cave aren't soundproof, so please- please. Refrain from any urges you may have, if you really want to go have 'fun' do it quietly, use a gag or something- that could be, uh, interesting."

M'gann was mortified.

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She was absolutely, cherry fire engine red, embarrassed.

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And couldn't believe that Zatanna was talking to her about… that.

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The only solution she saw to divert the conversation was to throw a pillow at the laughing magician. Who had, at some point, taken her phone out and snapped a few pictures of her cherry red face.

Robin was definitely a bad influence on her, but it couldn't seem more right.


They had gotten together, the girls of the Team, and planned a very detail situation that would be initiated and completed by the end of the week. During the course of the Team, dubbed 'Chalant squad' by Artemis, the males of the Team had found them and convinced them to allow them to join in, seeing the perfection of the craft that was Plan A, Plan B, and Plan Failsafe.

Operation Magic.

So now it was a full-blown operation that would begin tomorrow, the beginning of summer break. The heroes living at the cave, Conner and M'gann would set breakfast up, which would distract Zatanna enough for everyone else to smuggle into the cave.

Batgirl would hack into the systems and disable the speakers, so if something went wrong she couldn't hear the zeta tube announce their arrivals.

Wally would start to wreck havoc on the inhabitants of the cave, no mercy would be handed to them, whether or not they were on the mission or not.

Raquel would suggest they go to an open space, such as the park- somewhere with a lake or pond for the Atlantian's to play around in. They would go happily- wanting to get away from the mess, which Superboy and Miss Martian would stay and clean up as they would assume to be doing coupley things.

But in reality they were tailing them and watching closely for Batgirl's signal- what she called, The Bat-nastics, which would be a full scale gym routine that she was 'showing off', really was a false front for Miss Martian to morph into a thug and kidnap Zatanna. Initiating the flight or fight instinct, resulting in her capture and Robin's endless hunt to find her.

Oh yes.

Operation Magic was go.


The next morning things were going to plan, at least for the Chalant squad.

For Zatanna, Red Tornado, Black Canary and Robin it was a total disaster, heavy of the dis.

M'gann had effectively taken Zatanna's mind off anything, and had made the excuse up- 'sorry for last night', which she totally wasn't for.

But the key part to the plan was in full gear, and no one could stop it- only maybe the Flash.

"Wally, I swear if you don't stop I will rip every single piece of your Flash memorabilia into little shreds and gift them to the Joker." Robin yelled at the top of his voice- which was still, funnily enough, breaking in.

"Whatcha gonna do 'bout it little birdy?" He cried, running circles around the poor teen before speeding off down the hallway.

Wally, per instruction, had been loaded with cans of silly string and had run around the cave, spraying the stuff everywhere. Someone, Batgirl, had also provided him with paint, food colouring, whipped cream, rolls of confetti, whiteboard markers and ten banana pies. So from top to bottom the cave had been covered in an assortment of colourful, tasty, stringy, creamy toppings and decorations.

"Wally West." The loud voice of Black Canary boomed, demanding attention and obedience, "Stop it right now, or I swear I will called Flash."

Wally sped into the room with his eyes narrowed, "Flash will laugh, this is so funny- you should see your faces." He laughed, noting the mustache drawn on Zatanna's upper lip, the monobrow he had drawn on M'gann, the 'I heart Zatanna' message on Robin's cheek and the doodling of Aqualad's eel tattoos.

"I'm not talking about your uncle Wally. I'm talking about the Flash." She hissed out, narrowing her eyes at him further, "stop this madness now, do you understand me?"

"Yes, sir. I mean mam, I mean sir- mam Black Canary." He stuttered, Jay would get a kick out of this too, but he didn't want to push the buttons on the Team trainer. Especially since this wasn't his idea- although he admitted it was brilliant.

"Good, you will clean this mess up before dinner." She huffed before turning and walking away.

As soon as she was out of earshot the Team burst into fits of laughter, the sight was so silly and amusing, Wally had finally been stumped by Black Canary. Yes- it was going to be a good day, in more ways than one.

"Does anyone want to go to the park?" Raquel spoke up, cleaning the whipped cream beard off her chin and smearing it on the person next to her, poor Artemis.

"Wally, me and Conner will clean up for you, why don't you and the rest of the Team go to the park for a breather?" M'gann offered kindly, playing her part perfectly.

"We will?" Conner said, making sure he got his one line right, and after M'gann 'elbowed' him, "I mean- yeah. We'll help you clean up, you go outside."

The Team shrugged and walked out, Batgirl trailing behind them and turning around and giving the couple a wink and a thumbs up.

M'gann turned to Conner and smiled, "Shall we get that ski mask?"

"As long as I don't have to wear a monkey suit." He grumbled, following her down the hallways as she floated forward.

A/N: So I finally got this in! SO sorry it's late, but I have a legit reason! The teachers at my school have this thing when I swear they plan to give us essays and assignments at the same time, PLUS I have to study for maths because I'm a year ahead and the teacher will not teach us the stuff properly.

Ok, so now that's out of my system...

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-The Missing X