Okay so here is the FOURTH chapter of One Batfamily too many, and I would like to thank all of you who reviewed, even though I may not be able to thank you all through PM, and all the Guest reviewers too!
On with the story!
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"Okay this is awkward." Oracle said, as she strolled in and observed the scene. She wasn't surprised to find that Bruce was alive, and in the Bat-suit here because she had already figured out that they were not in their dimension.
Everyone snapped their head to her direction.
"Oracle!" Cass cried, and Tim sighed. "So it looks like all of us are here together now," he said and shook his head, muttering to himself. "Great, just great."
Damian glared at Tim, silently willing him to shut up. He was getting on his nerves what with all the scientific talk and constant mumbling. He hated being ignored.
Dick snapped out of his trance and studied the new arrivals. There were five in all, three girls and two boys.
The girl on the very left side had short black hair and instead of the usual domino mask, her mask was pointed at the end, resembling bat wings. She wore a female version of the Bat-suit, but the bat symbol on her chest was only colored partly, and she wore a black cape ripped stylishly at the end. Instead of gloves she wrapped her hands in white bandages, and wore the usual yellow utility belt. She was studying the Team carefully, and as if she had reached some sort of conclusion she lowered her guard slightly, but was still cautious.
Next to her, stood a young boy at about the age of ten, and, to what came as a surprise at the Team, he was wearing the 'R' symbol, which signified him as Robin. Unlike their Robin, he wore a hood instead of a cape, and had green combat boots with red laces. His utility belt was black, and yellow at the Bat symbol that clasped it together. He wore green gloves instead, and had a very un-Robinlike scowl on his face.
A teenage boy stood next to 'Robin'.(A/N I'm not sure how old he is) He had short black hair, like 'Robin', and was wearing a domino mask(Hated the cowl)and black gloves. He wore long black pants and black boots, and had a black utility belt instead of yellow. He had on a chest harness, which was a lighter color than the red of his outfit, and he was discreetly observing the scene, accessing any other possible escape routes, and studying the members of the Team.
Next, was the latest two 'guests', one of which had flaming red hair and sat in a wheel chair. Her glasses were covered by pixels to conceal her identity, and even though she just arrived, you could feel that through those pixel covered eyes, she could see you, know your every little secret with just a swipe of her fingers.
At last, standing awkwardly to the side, was a blonde-haired girl in a female version of the Bat-suit, like the Black Bat as 'Batman' had called her, but there were a few differences. She wore a cowl with bat ears sticking up, like Batman's cowl, and lined at the sides of her costumes were strips of purple—eggplant, more like. Her hands were placed behind her back, and her eyes were darting around the Cave, taking in every detail.
"Batman, do you know them?" Bruce asked, though judging from their costumes and various attack poses he already knew the answer.
"Yes." He replied, with a nod, "It seems that whatever villain deciding to send us all here made sure to do it with the whole package." He said wryly, tugging at his cuffs, clearly meaning Red Hood. Red Hood chuckled, and he shook his head.
"What, I'm not family too?"
The tension that followed next was so thick you could cut it with a knife.
"Red Hood. I should've known you had something to do with this." Tim spat, being the first to break the silence.
"Oh so you think I would've sent you all here along with myself, in a dimension where HE'S still alive and golden boy here is still a bird?" Jason retorted viciously, pointing at Bruce and Robin-Dick.
He had come to the conclusion that Dick was Robin when he stuck his head in the interrogation room just moments before. Tim would've been all business and stiff and professional-like, while Dick would be more childish, in some sort of way.
"Well why not? You kill us every chance you get!"
"It's not like you give me a choice!"
Tim started to rush forward, only to be held back by Cass.
"Why don't you just shut up and tell us HOW WE CAN EFFIN' GET BACK!"
"FOR THE LAST GODDAMNED TIME I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!"
"OH AND I'M SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE YOU?"
Before they could go on, they were cut off by a well-aimed bat-a-rang that missed him by a few inches and caught Tim off guard, and an extra-hard tug from the cuffs that was holding Jason back.
"Enough." 'Batman' said, glaring at both of them. "Red Robin, back down."
Tim recluently took a few steps away and back from Jason, who was being held down by 'Batman'.
Bruce, observing that the scene was calm enough, decided to step in.
"Is there anyone else that was left behind?" he asked.
They exchanged looks, and seemed to come across some kind of decision. He briefly wondered if they were mind-linked.
"No, no one that we know of, but I'll check." The red-haired woman typed a few keys on a holographic screen that seemingly appeared out of nowhere from her wheelchair, and a few seconds later, with a decisive swipe of her hand, the screen cleared and she shook her head.
"No one else. Looks like we're all here. And I think I believe we've forgotten to introduce ourselves. I'm Oracle." She said, and the Team nodded at her in greeting.
Cass stepped forward and pointed at herself. "Black Bat."
"Red Robin." Tim said next, and then nudged Damian.
"Robin." He said grumpily, glaring at the Team from his masked eyes when Megan squealed silently about how cute he is. They shivered, except both Robin-Dick and 'Batman', Bruce, and the rest of the Bat-family, including Jason.
"Batgirl." The blonde-haired girl said, and smiled slightly. The Team noted that she was the more not so anti-social of the group, and smiled and nodded at her in return.
"Well, as you know, I'm Batman and this is Red Hood." Jason grunted, still struggling from Dick's grip. Oh how much he wished he was back in his dingy apartment in a abandoned building, or any one of his safe houses. Anywhere but here, with the whole Bat-family plus the original dynamic duo. He swore that whoever did this, will pay. HARD.
The Team, feeling that it's their turn, spoke up and started to introduce themselves.
"Hi, I'm Miss—" "Miss Martian M'gann or Megan, and that's Superboy Conner, Kid Flash Wally, Rocket Raquel, and Aqualad Kaldur, right? And you're…Zatanna." Tim said, wanting to speed up the progress so that he could start finding a way out of this dimension.
Megan nodded her head silently, and was just about to ask how they knew when Oracle explained it to her one step earlier.
"In our dimension, we had a superhero community like yours too, just with a few minor changes and age differences.
"Hey what about me?" Artemis spoke up, aware that Tim didn't mention her.
He turned his attention to her. "Tigress? He tried, but she shook her head.
"I'm Artemis." She said, and she held out her hand. Tim shook it, and when Artemis was about to ask about her other-dimensional self, she was cut off by Batman.
"In order to assist us with the information needed to send you back, you are required to stay at Mount Justice at all times."
The Bat-family nodded, having expected it coming.
"I trust you've already taken care of our daily supplies and needs?" Oracle asked, gesturing to them all.
Bruce nodded, and watched as they walked towards the direction of the rooms.
"Don't bother showing them the way. They already know it like the back of their hand from reading the blue-prints. Training exercise—don't ask." 'Batman' said, explaining, "And I'm certain that the rooms are in the same place, considering the structure and that the interrogation and living room are all the same, that it won't be too different from the Mount Justice we have back home."
Bruce nodded, and dismissed the Team for an early night. Indeed, he thought, as he walked towards the interrogation room to continue, they would need all the energy they could get when dealing with the other dimensional Bat-family.
They were in for a long morning, and they could use all the rest they could get.
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And that's the end of this chappie!
As for where Steph and Babs gone when they first came here, I will explain through a short exchange that I haven't been able to input in this story:
"So I battle a warehouse full of joker goons and found Steph and hacked into the Justice League's computer systems to register us and this is the welcome I get?"
"How is that gonna bother you? You fight battles like that everyday, and with Steph too." Tim asked, confused.
Babs blinked. "Oh, that wasn't bothering me. What's bothering me is the fact that I got SWISHED AWAY before I could get my COFFEE!"
"Now Oracle—"
"Do you KNOW how HARD it is, having heroes asking you left and right, 'Hey Oracle, can you check the robbery at Gotham?' "Hey O, can you hack the computer data on that smuggling in Africa?" 'Hey can you book my dinner reservations?" left and right, left and right? Without me, they'd be flying around, looking for Asia and winding up in Africa!"
"There there now…"
"And to top it all off, I JUST HAD TO wind up in another FREAKING DIMENSION, and JUST BEFORE I TOOK MY COFFEE!"
Okay, that pretty much explains it. I apologise for the OOCness of all the characters, and I hope to update soon.
-BINthere