Batman looked over the video he'd had Flash record of him interrogating Minervo. The man had gladly spilled to him the contents of how to fix Robin after Batman had persuaded him by his usual means. By the time Batman had left there that day, he'd been completely satisfied. He'd gotten the information he'd wanted and he'd scared the man who'd DARED to mess with his sidekick in anyway senseless.
Batman was now in the Batcave with the security camera footage playing before him. He watched it, memorizing everything the man had said with acute detail. He didn't want to risk his son getting hurt or injured should a mistake be made in the "recipe."
"I take it this is what you have been doing while the team takes care of master Dick." Alfred stated as he walked down the stairs into the Batcave.
"Alfred, you know I have to figure out what Minervo did to Dick. We can't just leave him as a toddler forever. Besides, the team is doing fine taking care of him."
"But moving from house to house every day at his age is not good for his development. He needs to have a stable home with a parental figure, not a bunch of adolescents switching off who takes care of him."
"He won't be a toddler forever. It won't be like this once he is back to normal."
"But for now, this is normal for master Dick, and right now, he doesn't need to be handed off to someone new every day. For now, you need to step in and be more of a father for him." With that, Alfred walked back upstairs, leaving Bruce to reflect on what to do next.
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Wally woke up to streams of sunshine flowing into his room, and the quiet sound of singing and laughing coming from downstairs. Wally threw a clean shirt and pants on before walking sluggishly down the stairs and towards the living room. Wally used his hand to cover his wide smile as he watched his girlfriend and his best friend on the couch.
Artemis and Dick were sitting on the couch, playing a hand clapping game, clapping their own hands before clapping each other's hands in the rhythm of the song Artemis was singing.
"Say, Say my playmate. Come out and play with me,
and bring your dolly three. climb up my apple tree.
Slide down my rainbow, slide down my cellar door,
and we'll be happy friends, forever more. More. More more more more.
Say, Say my playmate. I cannot play with you.
My dolly has the flu. Boohoo hoohoo hoohoo.
Slide down my rainbow, slide down my cellar door,
And we'll be happy friends, forever more. More. More more more more."
Dick laughed as they clapped the last few words of the nursery rhyme. Artemis smiled listening to the excited laughter of the toddler.
"I'm pretty sure you mixed up some of the words of that song." Wally chimed in as he walked over and sat next to Artemis and Dick. Artemis chuckled.
"Well how about you play another nursery rhyme with him?" Artemis moved Dick onto her lap so Dick could reach the speedster easier with his short arms. Wally held up his hands to Dick, showing him the simple clapping that went with his nursery rhyme.
"Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For fifty cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
Jump over the fence, fence, fence
They jumped so high, high, high
They touched the sky, sky, sky
And didn't come back, back, back
'Till the fourth of July, July, July."
Dick smiled and let out squeaks of excitement escape his lips after the song. Wally looked up from Dick to see Artemis holding back laughs with her hand.
"What's so hilarious?" Wally asked.
"That's a girl's nursery rhyme. And you know every word of it perfectly." She smiled as Wally's cheeks started burning red.
Artemis laughed for another second before her phone went off. She looked down and frowned at the message she got from Kaldur.
"We have a mission in 15 minutes." Artemis saw the instant drop on Wally's mood. He looked down at Dick, who was currently playing with his shoes.
"Is Batman gonna take Dick while we are gone?" Wally asked the archer. She just shrugged her shoulders and shook her head.
"I don't know. We have to get ready, but we can make plans at the base." Artemis got up and headed to her room to grab her suit. Wally sighed before getting up to do the same. Wally, now dawning the Kid Flash outfit, picked up Dick and his bag before Artemis emerged from her room.
"You ready?" Wally nodded before they headed out, hoping that a plan would come to them on the way.
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Artemis and Kid Flash arrived at the base and were greeted by the rest of the team. Minutes later, Batman arrived through the zeta tube and immediately pulled up a screen with a yellow flower and a map of the United Kingdom, more specifically the country of Whales.
"The Snowdonia Hawkweed is one of the rarest flowers in the world. It was thought to be extinct, but in Snowdonia, they found a few of these rare flowers. Labs in Whales have been doing research on these flowers, but they were hacked yesterday, and all the Snodonia hawkweeds have been stolen. We need you to find the thieves and return the plants. I will be on a mission finding thulium and lanthanum."
KF stared forward at the screen in disbelief. "Batman, not to be rude, but are you seriously having the whole team leave for Whales for some flowers, while Robin will have NO ONE to watch him?"
"Those flowers are extremely key in the formula to change Robin from his young form, back to normal."
After the lashing from the Bat, Kid Flash just kept his mouth shut. Miss Martian couldn't keep her concern for Robin down.
"Who's going to take care of Robin while we're all on missions?"
"Members of the league have volunteered to take care of him until I come back." Batman headed forward and plucked Robin from KF's grasp.
"Now, you'll be in Whales until you find and take down whoever stole from the lab. I will negotiate with the lab for the use of the plants, but for now, focus on finding the culprits."
The team headed off to the bioship as Batman headed to the zeta tubes. Once through, Batman passed Robin off to a confused Black Canary.
"You don't have to watch him, but someone has to be there at all times." Batman left once again, leaving Canary to figure out what to do next.
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