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AN: The line in the middle of it is switching to Rick/Redbird 3rd person POV

"You've brought someone who's been working with the Joker." Batman said, glaring at Matt. The boy flinched, and kept his eyes trained on the ground. Artemis, Redbird, and Megan did, too. Wally remained quiet, and looked past the Bat; Leaving Kaldur'ahm to explain.

The heated air in the mountain had warmed up the few on the team that were only human. Nobody voiced that thought, though. If they had, they would only end up with two, maybe three, angry teammates. Nobody needed that at the moment.

"He knows where Robin is. He took his belt, so that we could track him." The Atlantean explained, as Matt stepped over up to the Dark Knight. He handed over the belt, which Batman took immediately. Black Canary and Captain Marvel joined them.

Captain Marvel looked like he trusted the teen enough. Black Canary looked wary- and as usual, it was hard to read Batman. You could think he's angry, and he would be happy... if that's possible. When had they ever seen the Dark Knight happy? Wally had once, but that was when he had been Bruce Wayne, and when Robin had been Dick Grayson. Also, he and his best friend had been 9 and 11.

Batman looked away from the belt, and his eyes narrowed towards the brunette. "How do we know he isn't trying to lay a trap?" he asked, and Wally resisted the urge to roll his eyes. Were all bats this paranoid?

He spoke next, before he could start 'bat-glaring'. "Because. Why else would he say to make sure we brought a member of the league with us?"

"I wanted to leave." Matt spoke up. "I never wanted to be part of what they had planned; I only stayed to try and convince my sister to leave." he explained to him. "Since I realized she wasn't going to turn away, I left before I could get killed."

"Why would you get killed if you were helping the Joker?" Roy challenged, eyes narrowed suspiciously.

Matt met his gaze evenly, as if he was just surrounded by a bunch of his friends from school; rather than by a bunch of superheroes. "I wasn't any use to the Joker anymore; For all I know, Kelsey is dead right now." he said, and the speedster suddenly felt sorry for him. His sister was all he had left.

Batman turned away, and looked down at his sons belt again. He was obviously deciding whether to let them go or not. They had to go, though! If he said no, they would still go, right?

The Dark Knight looked up after a few seconds. "This is a League matter now.." he told them, turning away to talk to Black Canary. Wally looked over at his teamates to see their reactions. Anger flared in their eyes as they looked at the bat.

"You said that before, too! We want to go after him; we're his teammates!" Artemis protested, taking a step forward. He didn't expect anyone else to speak up; what more was there to say other than what she had already said? That was why he was surprised when Roy and Kaldur'ahm had spoken up.

"You say you trust us; why not allow us to help?"

Roy was glaring again as he spoke. "You can't stop me from helping; Robin's like a brother to me. I'm going to go whether you want me to or not." he told him, and the dark knight didn't seem surprised. In fact, he looked... well, to Wally he looked amused.

"I never said you couldn't help. I was only stating it was a League matter. You will help; I will go with you." Batman told them, turning back to the teens. "Hit the showers; we will leave first thing tomorrow for Arkham. Right before it gets light." he looked at Matt. "From what we know, they're mostly prepared for attack at night. We're going right after they put their defense down."

The brunette nodded, as Black Canary walked over to him. "I'll bring you to a spare room." she told him. It was obvious she was still wary; the door would probably be locked from the outside with someone keeping guard. Hopefully, it would be one from the League.

As the blonde led away their 'guest', Batman turned to them. "Be ready for me tomorrow; anyone not ready will be left behind." he told them, before walking over to the tubes.

As the team started to walk away, a "Recognized: Batman BO2' could be heard.

Wally didn't want to sleep! He wanted to leave now. Why did they have to wait until morning, anyways? The others, by the looks of it, agreed with Batman. Of course they would; who wanted to disagree with the Dark Knight.

"Good night." Kaldur'ahm said, walking into the room he occupied while staying at the Mountain. Artemis and M'Gann walked away towards where their rooms were. The archer mumbled a goodnight while M'Gann gave a more cheery one. Conner went to his own room without a word.

That left Wally standing in the hall with Rick and Roy. It took him a moment to remember neither had rooms. "You guys can share a room with me." he told them, walking a few feet away to his own. Roy followed immediately, while Rick hesitated.

"Come on, dude! It's fine. I don't bite." Wally teased him. He noticed the Robin-double relax slightly, even with the mask on. Rick then walked over, and followed the two into the room.

"So how exactly did you convince Batman to let you help?" Wally immediately asked, pulling off his mask and tossing it onto his bed. Roy closed the door behind him, before leaning back against it.

Rick shrugged. The speedster noticed how uncomfortable the teen was, and decided that this was the only question he would ask. Usually he would keep pestering someone, but now wasn't exactly the time. He would be sure to bother the kid for answers once they rescued Robin, though.

"I just kinda popped up on a night he was out in Gotham stopping some robbery." He explained to him, after a few moments. "He didn't say anything while I was helping; apparently, for a minute he thought I was the real Robin, until I explained to him about what I was doing."

"And he actually let you help?" Roy asked. It was a pretty obvious question, and he added, "He knew nothing about you. For all he knew, you could've been some Gotham psychopath!"

Rick met his distrusting gaze evenly. "It was either that or risk getting exposed by my father. What would you choose?" he challenged, before walking over into a corner. He sat down, and leaned back against the wall. He looked at the ground.

Wally raised an eyebrow. "Want a pillow instead of a wall?" he asked. In a fraction of a second, he was at his closet, with two pillows in his hands. Rick looked up just in time to see the speedster throw the pillow at the archer. It im him in the face, hardly surprising him. Must be the way he always got his pillows from Wally.

Roy picked up the pillow. At first, it seemed as if he was just going to lay it somewhere; until he launched himself at Wally and pretty much started beating him with the pillow. Indistinctly, he could be heard saying 'Nobody throws pillows at me'. What the heck!

Wally looked shocked; apparently, this was the first time that had happened. It took the speedster a moment before he took the pillow in his hand and starting fighting back.

Rick hadn't gotten to answer as he watched, amused. As he turned to just go to sleep, a pillow hit the side of his head. Turning around, picking up the pillow, and standing up, he saw that they hadn't noticed who they hit. Wally had tried to throw the pillow at Roy; now he was defenseless to the archer's pillow attacks. This seemed rather... out of character for Roy. Rick didn't know him that well, and he knew it.

Using the fact they didn't know to his advantage, Rick joined the war. His target was Wally, and the speedster was soon pretty much begging for them to stop. Finally, a voice rang through their heads, ending their childish game.

"Stop it! You're keeping us awake with your noise." Artemis snapped at them telepathically. M'Gann had obviously linked them up without their knowledge. They boys looked at each other with equal shock; had they really been that loud? What happened to sound-proof walls!

"How can you be so loud and immature, having pillow-fights when you know we all need our rest for tomorrow!" Artemis then added, just as Artemis un-linked them.

Wally looked guilty. "She's right, as annoying as she is; don't ever tell her I said that." he said, jumping into bed.

"Er... we better get to bed." Roy said. He was trying to sound like a mature adult, but looked embarrassed. Probably because he just fully realzied what he had started and participated in. He walked over to the closet again, and pulled down two blankets. Handing one to Rick, he then went over to the couch Wally had in his room and fell asleep. (Er, does Wally have a couch? Oh well, now he does XD)

Rick went over to the corner. He leaned against the wall, and deciding he was warm enough, placed the blanket next to him. The room was quiet now; Wally, surprisingly, had immediately fallen asleep. Roy was sitting on the couch, and Rick could feel his eyes on him. Ignoring them, he turned his head away. He would only be here for one more day; then he could leave. Back to his father, and school, and his friends.

He took a rubber ball out of his pocket and threw it in the air and catching it. He did this a few times before Roy spoke. "What are you doing!"

The ball came down, hitting him in the face. Knocking his mask of. A hand moved automatically to his face. He glared at the archer. "What do you think? I'm playing catch with myself until I can go to sleep." he grumbled, picking up his mask again. Roy was watching him, shock evident on his face.

"Who are you?"

"Dude dude dude! We have to get up now; or Bats will leave without us." Wally shook Rick awake. The yelling would've been fine, and it made the duplicate bird's head throb. The room was like, and he had to squint his eyes for a moment so they could adjust. Roy was calmly watching them from the corner.

Finally, Wally's words hit him. "Crap!" he said, standing up. The speedster ran into the bathroom, and a minute later, was in his Kid Flash costume. "I'llbeoutside!" he said, his words almost too fast to catch, and he ran out of the room; only to somehow crash into a wall. "I'm okay!" they heard him say, and then he was gone.

Rick shook his head, before following. Roy walked right behind him. The whole team was already in there. Of course the boys would be last; KF seemed pleased he wasn't totally last, though.

Batman was already there, as well. He looked at the teens as they came in, and didn't say a word. After a moment in silence, he spoke to Miss Martian. "We're taking your bio-ship."

She nodded, just as Superman popped up on the holographic screen. The Dark Knight looked at the screen for a moment before turning back to the teens. "Go wait for me. I'll be there in a minute."

The team was surprised; no mission briefing like they usually had? Not wanting to disobey Batman, they left the room and immediately headed out back.

"What do you think is so important that Batman doesn't want us in there?" Artemis questioned right before they got on. Conner and Wally shrugged; everyone else ignored the question.

Word count without AN: 2,047

Yeah, I would make Roy be the one to know something about Rick :P

Anyways, sorry for the late update. And... as for the pillow fight; I was hyper at the time, and hey, I don't care if it was out of character or anything there :P Sooo... if you don't like the pillowfight, you don't have to read that part; there isn't anything important there.

~Alexis

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