Scarlet Firesong: Glad you liked it so much! Here is the next chapter! :)

TheJokerMan: Thanks for the praise! As I have said before, I can certainly try to write one but it might take some time since I do have other fanfictions to work on as well (such as a sequel to 'Unwanted Visitor'. :)

SONGUE: Thanks for the suggestion! Believe it or not but you were actually the first one to recommend the movie to me. It helped a lot!

CainVulsore: Interesting idea… definitely one that I'll have to look into… :)

The Troublemaker

Joy couldn't contain the excitement she felt as she looked down at the boy that was in front of Bruce.

"Aww… he's a mini version of Bruce!" She exclaimed a small sigh escaping her as she remembered what the Dark Knight had looked like as a kid. True to her word, the child in front of them really did look like a younger Bruce.

Even down to the angry scowl he's giving us… That thought caused a small frown to appear on her face before it was once again replaced with a smile. Sure he had been dropped off here by his mother and now they had to take care of him, but it was a positive aspect in Joy's book.

Dick doesn't get that often to visit since he started working in Blüdhaven, Jason is… not really talking to us right now, and Tim is just too much like Bruce from the social aspect of life… and then there's the girls…

Having the biological son of Bruce in the manor had to be a positive thing, it just had to!

"I mean… worse comes to worse he's exactly like Bruce." Joy stated, slightly hoping that that wasn't completely the case. Sure he looked exactly like Bruce and he even acted like him… but at least they would know how to act around him.

It wouldn't be like with the other six where we didn't know what to do…

The others in the control room groaned at her statement, besides Sadness who was staring at the screen in mild curiosity.

"Why can't we read his emotions?" Their blue-haired friend asked, confusion on her face as she stared at the boy on the screen.

True to her friend's observation, the kid's face was like a mask with little to no emotion showing through, not unlike the one that Batman normally wore…

"He's probably just trained that way. I mean, they all get that… 'look' on their face when they're in their hero personas anyways."

The four other emotions stared at her in disbelief, almost as if they couldn't believe what she was saying.

They know I'm right…

"Joy…" Fear began, inching slowly towards the screen, as if afraid that the boy would attack them. "He's a kid though. Last time we checked, children weren't supposed to act like that…"

A frown made its way back on her face as she stared back towards the screen, at where the boy seemed to be staring up at his father in what seemed to be boredom, showing his first emotion yet.

"I'm sure it's just a mask…" She whispered, taking a step closer to the bat-shaped control panel, laying her hand on the panel as it lit up a bright yellow. Despite the suggestion for Bruce, he wasn't the one who spoke first.

"You didn't know about me?"

"No."

None of the Emotions dared to touch the screen, instead staring at the way the two began their interaction. They would step in if needed, but other than that, it didn't seem like anything was going wrong… yet.

"So Mother has made me your responsibility?" The boy asked back, his face not showing any reaction to the answer that the man had given previously, almost as if beginning to challenge the Dark Knight to argue.

Which we can't allow to happen…

"Something like that." Green-eyes suddenly flicked over to where Bruce was, almost seeming to take more a of offensive look.

"This isn't necessary. I do fine by myself." Bruce turned to look at the boy, while the Emotions tried to read on how this situation was going to play out. If there was one thing they had gotten better at over the years, it was knowing when to step in when they were needed.

"So do I. But things have changed. She thinks you'll be better off with me, for now." At that reply, the boy's eyes became calculating, if not a bit mocking.

"What do you think?"

Bruce seemed to hesitate for a moment, causing a bit of panic in Joy. If he was hesitating to say anything, even for just a fraction of a second, then…

This might not end so well…

"Better than with the League of Assassin."

Oh no…

Why, oh, why did Bruce have to say it like that? Even if it was true, it still didn't mean that it had to be said…

Damian's eyes suddenly filled with a spark of fire, along with a hint of defensiveness.

"They taught me how to fight."

"And I take it not much else." With that, it seemed like the talk was over since the Dark Knight turned towards where he had parked the Batmobile. Pressing a button on his belt, the roof of the vehicle suddenly slid open, the direction they were supposed to take being clear.

"I'll drive." The voice that came from behind them showed little to no trace of emotion from the previous talk, as if the slate had been wiped clean.

No if it was Jason, then he would have continued the conversation with much more heat…

"What?! How's a kid going to drive? And why would we even let him?!" Anger's startled voice from next to her jolted Joy out of her thoughts. She glanced back at the situation at hand, an idea suddenly forming in her head. She quickly pressed her hand against the control panel, it lighting up a bright yellow.

"Yes!" She yelled, as if the man could hear them, even though she knew that he couldn't.

"No." Joy frowned at that, putting her hand back on the panel as she did so.

"I know how." Now the kid's voice seemed a bit more emotional, less closed off.

"No." Joy groaned and Anger looked over at her in surprise.

"Are you trying to get us killed?!" She turned towards him, her hand still pressing down on the panel.

"No! It would be fun!"

Besides, he knows how to drive… even though I've never seen him actually do it… he wouldn't just lie about it…

The four other occupants of the room glanced behind them, over to where Fear was when he voice his question.

"And how would it be fun?"

A smile made its way onto her face as she remembered an incident from when the other Batkids were young.

"It would be just like bumper cars at the amusement park!"

Apparently no one shared her enthusiasm because they all glanced at her, either shock or confusion evident on their faces.

"What are we going to bump around on? Parked cars?" Disgust asked, her voice clearly indicating that she was totally against this idea from the start.

"Well, no-" Joy began but was cut off by Fear.

"Isn't that a safety hazard?"

"Well, yes but-." She was cut off once more by Sadness raising her hand in the air, looking really excited about something. "Yes, Sadness?"

The blue-haired girl looked back at the screen, as father and son hopped into the vehicle and the hatch began to close.

"Will it start raining if we do that?" Joy sighed, briefly bringing up a rain forecast on the screen, before dismissing it.

"No Sadness, that's not how the weather works." Her friend's excitement suddenly left her face, instead looking a bit downcast as she hung her head.

"Oh… ok…" Her friend turned back to the screen and Joy let out a sigh, focusing her attention back on the screen as well.

"Alfred?" The Dark Knight's voice suddenly sounded larger in the small space as the roof closed over their heads. The picture of their faithful butler was displayed on the screen near the steering wheel.

"Yes, sir."

"We're going to have company."

The butler must have been used to the way that Batman picked up protégées by now because he didn't sound the least surprised by the sentence.

"A sleepover? Oh, goody." With that, they began to drive back towards the manor, their work done for tonight. Joy turned back around to face her friends, a wide smile on her face.

"See? We're going to have a sleepover! Sleepovers are fun!" When everyone gave her doubtful looks, she tried another positive outlook on the situation. "Well at least Bruce gets to go home early tonight."

At that, they all glanced back at the screen, where Bruce was splitting his view between observing the small boy beside him and the road ahead. If Damian was anything like his father, which they were all pretty sure by now that he might be exactly like his father; he would be analyzing the situation as well. If anything though, the child just looked bored.

"With this kid, I doubt it'll be anything near fun." Anger's reply caused Joy to leave out another sigh.

Why can't things be simple for once…?

So, this is finally out, after I got to sit down today and write the rest of it. Thanks for all the patience you all have given me in getting this out! It really helped! I know I could have gone onto the whole "Damian inspects the cave and meets Alfred" part of the backstory, but I figured I'd leave that for another time. :) So 'The Least' is officially over, but that doesn't mean that I'm done writing with the Emotions and Batfamily! Thanks to CainVulsore I now have the idea (and hopefully permission) to write about the Batgirls! This might take a lot of researching on the girls' backstories and personalities, but I hope to do the characters justice! The title will be 'Reacting to Girls' or at least for now it will be (because we all know that girls are way different than boys :)). Then after that gets done, I'll have the sequel to the both of them, with little one-shots with all the characters together! So I'm far from done with the archive. Please let me know your thoughts on all this (not just the chapters but the next installment as well)! Can't wait to see you all in the next fanfiction but until then, have a great week!

-AnimeWolfGirl16