AN: Umm... Yeah, sorry I haven't updated in... a while, you could say I've been busy, but then I saw episode 1 of Invasion, got five days of school and read Teen Titans Annual #1 (poor Artemis) and I saw Avengers, nothing like a load of not-studying to get you motivated.
Oh and in responce to luvthesea17: Nightwings EX girlfriend is the alien warrior princess, Batgirl is ihis current girlfriend.
Anyway, ENJOY!
Blue Bird: Chapter 11
The ride back was relatively uneventful.
Impulse managed to contain his nausea for the whole journey, which was mostly spent in silence. About half an hour from Happy Harbour Artemis turned to Nightwing.
"So, which of these clowns tried to kill Superman?"
Nightwing arched an eyebrow at Batgirl, who was glaring with venom at him. Ravager, unaware of this, smirked, "That would be me, speaking of which," she, too, turned to Nightwing, "If I see him can I hit him?"
"If he's being a douche." Nightwing said, "If he isn't, play nice."
"Playing nice is boring." Ravager pouted.
"You not playing nice is the reason Cassie gave you the boot." Cyborg said.
"Coming to her defence, and it isn't often that I do that," Batgirl interrupted, "Cassie is a total bitch anyway, whenever I see her I want to annoy her."
Ravager looked mildly triumphant; "Team Ravager: one, Team Wonder Witch: zero."
Wally raised an eyebrow at his teammates; "Any idea what they're talking about?"
"None." Aqualad said, "And I think it best if we steer the conversation in to territory that will not further disrupt the timelines."
M'Gann nodded, "So, Nightwing, this is your team?"
Nightwing took the hint and nodded, "Yep, and they're awesome."
"And have seen Robin?" Aqualad asked.
They all nodded and Batgirl smirked; "Little troll if ever there was one."
At the confused looks on the team's faces Beast Boy smiled toothily; "Boy Wonder hacked her computer; left an animation of a flower on it. What type was it again?"
"An Aster." Cyborg supplied, "A yellow one."
"Sounds about right." Superboy said, folding his arms.
There was silence for a few minutes, then M'Gann turned to Ravager; "So, Ravager, if you were watching Robin, how did you end up with your team here?"
"Batgirl called me in." Ravager explained, "We went after Warp to try and get some of his tech, except it didn't really work, we just ended up here."
"So Robin is in your time, alone." Wally stated.
"No, even I'm not that irresponsible." Ravager said.
Batgirl coughed and the other girl glared; "What? If you don't believe me just ask Ro-"
A red-gloved hand shot out of nowhere and covered Ravager's mouth, "Spoilers." Impulse muttered, his voice slightly muffled by his other hand, still clamped firmly over his mouth.
Nightwing rolled his eyes and pulled a paper bag from his belt. As he handed it to Impulse the speedster nodded in thanks and held it under his mouth.
"Are we there yet?" the speedster asked.
"Nearly," Nightwing said, "Speaking of which, Aqualad, you should probably warn RT or Bats or Supes, or whoever's on 'den mother duty' this week that we've got more time-displaced super-teens."
"I'm not a teen," Batgirl pointed out, "Neither is Cyborg."
Cyborg gave her a funny look; "Are you trying to cause confusion now, or is that genuinely important to you?"
Batgirl shrugged and Aqualad made the call. The rest of the relatively short flight was silent and, no sooner than the bioship's doors had opened was Impulse gone, shouting something which Beast Boy translated as; "Gotta find a bathroom stat!"
The others disembarked more slowly, only to be met with an ever-stoic Red Tornado and an uncomfortable-looking Superman. Ravager smiled wickedly and pretended not to notice the three senior members of her team glaring in her direction.
"Dibs." She muttered.
"Denied." Nightwing and Batgirl deadpanned.
Kid Flash raised an eyebrow at Artemis; "You can deny dibs?"
She shrugged but didn't reply, focusing instead on staying on her feet as Impulse came back and promptly crashed into her.
Aqualad gave a world-weary sigh and stepped forwards, "The mission was a success, I believe it would be prudent to debrief in the mission room."
Superman nodded and gestured for the two teams to lead the way, which they did and arrived in the mission room, where Aqualad and Nightwing took point.
Aqualad began, "We had arrived at the facility and infiltrated it successfully, however, upon our arrival we discovered a second team already inside."
"That was us." Beast Boy put in helpfully.
"Together our two teams took down the remaining guards and searched the facility." Nightwing said, "Aside from ourselves and the guards it was empty, but we discovered on hacking the mainframe that it had been designed to house a metahuman containment facility for an organisation called the Darkside Club."
"In our time it's like a high-end low-life sport." Ravager said, "Its like gladiators except with metas, and a pretty high percentage of these people aren't there willingly."
"Thanks to Ravager, it was rendered obsolete about ten months before we were sent here." Batgirl said, "But here it doesn't even exist yet,"
"And shouldn't exist for, at minimum, another four to six years." Cyborg said.
"I will inform Batman of your report." Red Tornado said, "Superman will remain here on standby should there be any emergencies."
The android left, and the zeta tube lit up; "Recognised; Red Tornado; 1-6."
There was silence for a moment. Then Ravager spoke; "Is forced bonding a viable form of torture?"
"Why do you wish to know?" Aqualad asked.
Ravager shrugged, "I want to know if I could be locked up for forcing Superman to sit down and talk to his fellow Kryptonian."
"No, you couldn't." Nightwing said, "But it would still be inadvisable."
"Okay." Ravager shrugged, then turned on Superman, still standing there, looking and feeling incredibly awkward. "You, sir, need to get your goddamn act together pronto!"
The assembled company winced and Nightwing led the way out of the room as Ravager continued shouting; "There are a lot of things I can live through, but poor parenting isn't one of them! Hell my father may have been an abusive bit of scum, but at least he knew when my birthday was, bothered to find out when I got a boyfriend, even if it was just to try and kill him, and knew my name. So in the parenting aspect of your life you are on a par with the man who, in ten years time, is responsible for quite a few deaths."
Superman gaped like a fish, unable to find his tongue as the young woman ranted on, "Did you know Superboy has a name? Or a girlfriend? Did you know he's on the honour role at High School? Hell, did you even know he went to school?"
When Superman, once again, didn't reply, Ravager clearly rolled her eye, an action invisible under the cowl, but still discernable to the team, cowering just beyond the door eight feet away; "Food for thought, Kent."
The team re-entered the room and, almost at the same instant, the zeta tube lit up again; "Recognised; Batman; 0-2. Red Tornado; 1-6."
The two aforementioned heroes entered and the tension in the cave increased one hundred fold.
Nightwing was subconsciously glad he had confiscated Ravager's kryptonite.
AN: He he... that was fun, I always imagined that Ravager wouldn't abide by heroes being bad parents... so I guess she'd be angry at Superman and deeply admire Batman, just on the basis of their parenting skills.