Batman sat at the Watchtower, staring furiously at the computer screen.

They should have checked in by now. He was going full Daddy-Bats, with the wormhole that seemed to have opened, and the Team missing.

Bruce looked up quickly as a text box popped up on his screen.

Robin? He wondered, seeing the familiar code run.

Hey. Popped up in the box. Is this Batman? Bruce quickly responded, yes, who is this?

I'm Tony Stark, Popped up. I work with the Avengers.

How are you on this frequency?

I used the waves the portal thing let off.

Then I shouldn't be receiving this. It would go to the mainframe. What did you do?

Oh, I forgot to ask, guess what we have that you don't?

Bruce frowned, What?

Robin. A picture of Robin appeared, he seemed to be in a cell of some sort. Bruce's fists clenched.

If you hurt him-

Chill out. He's fine. He continued to glare at the screen.

He better be.

You should really try to come over and get them back, because Fury sure as heck isn't sending them to you.

Bruce stared at the message for a second, before closing the tab.

I'll get them back, but I sure as hell don't need your help. He stood up, I'll get them back.

If someone was watching the camera feed to the cells, it would seem as if the teenages weren't doing anything remotely rebellious.

Well, it depends on if you watched before or after Robin hacked the feed and freed Artemis, Wally, and M'gann.

"Conner!" M'gann happily ran into his cell, pulling the collar off of his neck.

"Hello, M'gann." He smiled.

"Kaldur!" A similar scene was going on as Robin leapt over to Kaldur, removing the Atlantean's collar.

"Thank you, Team," Kaldur greeted them as Wally quickly unlocked his hands.

"M'gann?" Artemis tapped the Martian girl on the shoulder.

"Hmm?"

"Can you call the bio-ship?"

"It might take a while, but yes, I can."

"Good," Artemis smiled and walked into Kaldur's cell where the boys were waiting, leaving the couple to their reunion. "Hey, Wally, Robin," She spoke up. "That lady said something about talking to our dimension or something. Through technology." The response was instantaneous. Both of their faces lit up as they looked at her in absolute elation.

"Yeah! If you had the right computer, and some codes-" Wally was cut off by Robin shaking his head.

"You don't really need code! Only if you wanted a specific person-"

"Ah! The waves let off from the-"

"Explosion! Right!" They both turned on Artemis and Kaldur with pleading eyes.

"Can we look at it?" They chorused.

Artemis grinned, looking at Kaldur who nodded.

"Whoever gives us better reasoning can go to the computer while we get the bio-ship."

"I got this," Wally stepped in front of Robin cockily. "We can grab it and once we're in the bio-ship we can contact the League!"

"No, Kid Idiot," Robin sighed, annoyed. "It would need to be hooked up to the computer. The bio-ship doesn't have that." He smirked at Wally's face. "We do need the codes though, they took my belt so they could have contacted Batman. I could get them."

Kaldur and Artemis looked at the two, now arguing, boys.

"Robin?" Artemis asked, "How long would it take you to contact Batman?"

"And get through the security on the computer? Ten minutes max."

"Wally?"

He slumped, "Twenty minimum."

"Don't worry Wally, I'll bring you a souvenir," Robin cackled.

"Wally, you give Robin backup if he needs it, okay?"

"Fine," Wally grumbled.

"Great!" Robin cheered happily, dashing out of the room. "I'll meet you at the bioship!"

"The one thing I'm slower than Robin at," Wally marveled. "Is being a total geek."

"You're still pretty good at that, Baywatch."

"Oh, no, they didn't," Tony deadpanned, watching earlier feed of Robin looping the cameras so it appeared the teens were sitting still. "Uh, guys?" Tony said through his comm-link. "The kids may have gotten out."

"What?"Steve's annoyed voice came back.

"Meet you out front?" Tony winced. Five sighs reached him.

"Coming," Rang out through his earpiece.

As Tony stepped out into the street below Avengers tower, he was met with the weirdest sight. And New York gets pretty darn weird. But not to weird that five teenagers in bright costumes standing in the middle of the street was normal. No freaking way that is normal.

Wait, Tony stopped. Five? One-two-three-four-five. Yep. Five.

"Steve," He said to the super soldier who was about to run past him.

"What, Tony?"

"There's five."

"Uh, huh," Steve paused, counting. "Five, right." Tony stared at him. "What? Am I- oh." He realised. "There should be six, right?"

"Yep," Tony nodded. "And I think I know where the last one is. I'm taking Natasha!" He shouted before grabbing the assassin around the waist and pulling her up to his lab.

Robin padded lightly through Tony Stark's lab, before pushing one of the chairs in front of the supercomputer away. Kneeling down, Robin attached a cable from his gauntlet to the computer.

"Dang, that's a lot of security," He mumbled, typing quickly.

"Dang, that's a lot of tiny, other dimensional kid," A voice rang out from behind him, and Robin whirled around.

Tony Stark stood in the doorway, Black Widow behind him.

"Hey, Iron Suit Dude," Robin nodded, before turning back to the computer.

"Ninja Brat," Tony aimed a blaster at Robin's head. "Get. The. Hell. Off. My. COMPUTER."

"I'm busy," Robin mumbled, fully aware of the weapon pointed at him. Neither Robin or Natasha knew if it was on stun.

"So am I," Tony smirked. "I'm busy with your friends downstairs. So beat it."

"Nah," Robin smirked, his typing speed increasing. "I'd rather talk to my fam, if you don't mind."

"Who?" Tony lowered his arm in surprise, "Did you say fam? That isn't even a word!" Natasha looked at him as if he was an idiot, and leapt at Robin.

It was like something from a movie. As Natasha came at him, Robin ripped his gauntlet away from the computer, and jumped for the vents. She caught his foot as Robin's hands came in contact with the grate, and she yanked him against the ground. Tony stared as they swung punches and kicks at each other.

"Hey, Tony!" Natasha called, as Robin made another jump for the air vent. "Are you gonna stand there like a statue or are you gonna help?!"

"Oh!" Tony snapped out of his trance and fired a stun shot at Robin. "Yeah! Helping!" Natasha dodged a bird-a-rang as it came at her head.

"It would help a lot more if you could hit him!"

"I'm trying, Natasha! It would help me hit him if you weren't in the line of fire!" Now, Robin was fully capable of escape, but that wasn't what he was attempting. Robin wanted to get in contact with the League, even if it was only for a few seconds. He thought he could make it. He couldn't.

It happened slowly. First, he slipped and got punched by Natasha. This allowed Tony to fire multiple shots at him, forcing him away from the computer and back towards Black Widow. She kicked at him but he dodged, placing him between a wall and a cabinet. Leaping upwards, Robin launched himself on top of the cabinet, before slithering across the tops of various items to reach the computer again. He didn't notice the gas until it was too late.

Fumbling for his rebreather, Robin forgot secrecy and jumped to the floor in an attempt to avoid the gas coming from the ceiling.

"Ah!" He cried out as Natasha kicked him in the chest, knocking the rebreather away. Escape it was, then.

He turned and ran for the door, maneuvering through the cluttered lab quicker than Natasha could.

"Jarvis, lock all doors and windows, please?" Tony called out, and Robin doubled his pace towards the exit.

"Closing now, Sir." Ten feet from the door… He didn't make it. Robin put his hands out to break his crash into the solid metal.

"Natasha, you got a gas mask?"

"Yeah, Tony."

"Cool," Robin couldn't tell where the voices were coming from anymore. "Hey, Nat? Did you see if the kid had one?"

"He doesn't anymore," Natasha replied, coming out of the maze. Robin could barely make her out of the fog covering his vision.

"Is mot mice to seal," Robin managed, before leaning against the door, trying to support himself.

"I didn't seal," Natasha giggled as she walked up to the struggling teen. "He's over here, Tony!"

"Mot nice do drug eple thither," He complained as Tony scooped him off the floor. When had he fallen?

"Really? I haven't grasped that concept yet," Tony grinned. "I think drugging people works out nicely."

"S'not for thee," Robin mumbles, going limp against the Iron Man suit.

"Thee?" Natasha mused, "Are you foreign?"

"Dugged," Robin replied, lazily glaring at her. "Uz a you erks."

"Hear that, Nat? We're erks." Tony smirked at Robin, who was fighting to stay awake in his arms.

"Es you re. Et e o."

"What did you say?" Tony frowned at Robin.

"I ed et e o. I ot anna seep." Robin was babbling now, desperately wanting to stay awake and going about that by spouting nonsense.

"Mhm," Natasha smiled, motioning for Tony to follow her into the elevator.

"Op! Ut e own!" Robin weakly punched at Iron Man.

"Nah, kiddo. We're gonna go get your friends now." Tony smiled, "And I think I know how to do that." Robin's eyes widened behind his mask before he went limp in Tony's arms, the gas filling his system.

"Kaldur, Robin's off the link!" M'gann called out.

"How?" Kaldur leapt over to her, dodging Captain America's shield.

"I don't know! He just, he just left!" She cried frantically, flying around lighting strikes.

"He didn't leave, Miss Green!" Tony called out, hovering over the battle.

"Oh my God," M'gann cried, looking up.

"Can you get him?" Wally asked her, protecting Artemis from the barrage of arrows Hawkeye sent her way.

"Robin!" Artemis called out, "Are you alright?"

"He's unconscious, Baby Clint!" Tony flashed her a grin. Superboy launched himself at the suit, just to be knocked out of the air by Thor.

"M'gann, get the bioship." Kaldur commanded.

"But Robin!" She protested as she summoned the ship.

"We will get him before we leave, but we need a quick getaway." M'gann frowned but opened the ship doors.

"Go," Robin's thoughts came filtering into their heads.

"Robin!" M'gann cheered happily.

"Go, guys! I'll be fine. Get in the ship!" Robin instructed.

"No, Robin. We are not leaving without you."

"Dude! You can't stay here!"

"Robin, we can help!"

"No." Robin stated, still limp in Tony's arms. "Get out. You can't help me."

"We can!"

"No, you can't. Go, before they know you have an escape route." Kaldur looked up sadly.

"Are you sure we can't help?" He questioned.

"Yes. Now leave!"

"He's awake," Natasha informed Tony.

"No he isn't," Tony replied, looking down at Robin.

"Yes, he is," She insisted. "I'm gonna intercept the others."

"You do that," Tony mumbled, watching her slip around the conflicted teenagers.

Conner landed back by his teammates, who were staring angrily at the Avengers.

"You can surrender," Natasha quipped from behind them, earning four startled turns. Wally gaped open-mouthed at the spy while Artemis punched him, having been the only one not to move.

"She isn't here to stop us, Wally." She reprimanded. "She wants us to give up. They're using Robin as bait." She sighed sadly. "He's right. The best thing we can do is leave."

"Robin, will you be okay?" M'gann questioned.

"Yeah, just go!"

They looked defeated as each teen jumped into the bioship.

"We'll be back," Conner assured.

"I know you will," They felt Robin's smile through the link.

"He's been disconnected," M'gann informed. "I think he knocked himself out."

"We will be back, right guys?" Wally asked.

"Definitely."

"Who is locked up in our basement?" Growled Pepper.

"Uh, a teenaged vigilante from another dimension?"

"You realise how crazy that sounds?"

"Yes, Pepper," Tony sighed.

"And why did you think this was a good idea?" She seethed with silent rage.

"Uh, instincts?"

"Locking up a child like some criminal was instincts?"

"Yes?"

"He isn't a criminal, Tony!"

"We don't know that, Pepper!" He retorted, "For all we know, he could be some villain trying to take over Earth!"

"Where's your proof?"

"We can't take any chances!"

"No," She frowned. "You can't. And I get that, Tony. I do. But you should just talk to him. I mean," She looked at him sadly, "Truth serum? The kids you found may be trained, but that's cruel. They may have cooperated. You couldn't have just talked to them?"

"The truth serum wasn't-"

"Don't say it wasn't your idea, Tony!" Pepper shouted at him. "We both know full well that Nat didn't come up with that!"

"But-"

"TONY SHUT UP!" She yelled, "I DON'T CARE WHOSE IDEA IT WAS, BUT IT WASN'T ACCEPTABLE!" Tears slid down her face.

"I'll talk to him, Pep, okay?" He wrapped his arms around her. "But if they turn and begin to attack us, know I'll be the first one to say 'I told you so.'"

"Deal."