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Contrary to popular believe, Dick doesn't over work himself to the brink of death nor does he starve himself because of said work. He's not that workaholic kind of person. He's just your regular hero. Jog in the morning, kick some ass at night, trying to make a living in between, and savoring the weekends.

Dick is just your regular hero guy who happens to have a lot of burden on his shoulder like for example, saving the world while managing a group of young superhero. He's not a superhero but he sure feel like a super nanny sometimes.

In the mountain, his room is never locked just in case they want to talk to him or just hang around out of plain bored. Dick makes sure that he's there for everyone. The team loves that, adores that, needs that but when the team tried to return the favor, Dick would put on his mask, build a brick wall and swallows the burden himself.

So when the team sees him storming out through the zeta beam of course they don't know. "What's with him?" Garfield asked with a tone of amusement.

"I don't know. He's not really the most open." Raquel said, sounding concern.

Connor seemingly has gotten use to all this, give the team a piece of advice "Don't mind him. Is how Bats works." Tim in the corner started to frown cause he feel accused but then he realize how true that is. "We let you know what's important, that's all" Tim felt the slight urge to correct Connor still.

"Like where is the location of the Batcave?" Jaime asked, Snickering. Tim is considering to throw him a batarang.

"What was Nightwing like when he was Robin?" Karen asked, out of curiosity. She has heard rumor of course. He's a fun Robin who cannot keep his feet to the ground. He was always cackling and playing pranks. Such description seems to be so far away and unbelievable to their current fearless leader.

"Nightwing was…well…he's the most experienced out of us" M'gaan said. "He knows that and he damn well show it off a lot of time. He wanted to be leader but Batman said no."

"Was he happy?" Tim asked in that tone that he demand answer ASAP

"Aren't you his little brother?" Jaime asked, raising an eyebrow.

"So? He doesn't really talk of the past"

"He's happy, Robin. He's always cackling, playing pranks, spooking the criminals cause he can and he wants to" M'gaan smile at the distant memory then a frown took her place "Then he change."

"What gives?" Raquel asked.

"We…I…I couldn't control my power."

"Failsafe?" La'gaan scoot over to coo at his M'gaan "That wasn't your fault, Babe. It's the League being reckless!"

"Failsafe? What's that?" Karen scrunch her eyebrow "I heard of it before but…"

"The Leaque wanted the team to be prepared for anything. So they plan for a failsafe." Tim answered, realizing where this conversation is going.

"Prepared for what?"

"In case the Justice Leaque couldn't contain the situation" Tim again answered.

"You mean if the Justice Leaque are dead?" Jaime asked, mouth agape cause he can't really think about what if they are. What if they have to performed failsafe. Tim nodded grimly.

"What happened?" Karen asked, craving for some information.

"The Alien Invasion disintegrated the Leaque except Manhunter. We were left with no mentor, no back up, and a whole world to take care of. It was chaotic," Conner began to explain. "We decided that the best thing to do is to just keep calm and try our best to maintain the situation."

"We had a plan and everything but things started to fall apart when Artemis died." M'gaan clench her fist tightly, trying hard to suspend the tears. "But we carry on nonetheless, we made another plan. It was Robin's plan."

"What was his plan?" Karen now asked, a little bit afraid of the answer. She can sense it did not go well.

"Get aboard the mothership," M'gaan has to actually take a deep breath to explain what happened next "Superboy got disintegrated, Robin and Kid Flash died in a suicide bomb and I was killed by Manhunter"

"We woke up to find out that it's all just a simulation. None of it was real." Connor said.

"Well is real now, Team. Like it or not, is real. We have reach invasion, Major League is facing some alien court that might possibly end with them inside a coffin. Artemis is dead and I make plans. Sounds like a familiar scenario." Dick showed up out of nowhere, silence as always. "Let's just pray it wouldn't end they way it had"

"How did the failsafe change you?" Jaime asked still not getting it.

"It changed all of us" Connor stated.

"I would never drag my friends into a suicidal crusade and I just did. I thought that I wouldn't be like that, I would never be like that," Dick choose to sit beside Connor "Then it changed my opinion on being a leader."

"But you're the best guy we got." Connor pat his shoulder "And beside, you're not alone."

"That's the problem. I could just be leading all of you to your doom right now."

"Now you're just being grim, I wouldn't mind going down with a glorious majestic fight." Mal finally decided to open his mouth, lending out some wise words. Like some democratic argument, everyone voice out their agreement.

"Don't let your age tell you, you're incapable. As far as I can tell, This team is better than the League." Dick said and he meant it. There's no argument like the league, there's action and unity and harmony. Dick couldn't ask for a better functional team even though every covert mission they have is always blown, even though everyone got so much weakness to fix. There's a lot of things Dick can say about the team. Maybe they look up at him, because he's older, because he got more experience but the truth is, Dick look up to the team. Cause they're know how to unite, they know how to trust, they seen dark stuff yet still be able to be in the light, they're a team "I'm honored to be in this team, you guys should know that."