AN: Sorry for taking so long, but, thankfully I'm all done with exams now and I've got a chapter for you guys.
Enjoy!
One relatively short trip in the bioship later found Aqualad, Nightwing, Cyborg, Impulse, Superboy, Artemis, her older counterpart and the future Flash standing in hangar again, hastily filling Red Tornado in on the details of their relatively short mission as the sounds of something, or in this case someone, being punched around grew steadily louder from the next room.
"What the hell's going on in there?" Tigress turned slightly and craned her neck, trying to see through the entrance, eight feet away.
"I believe Kid Flash was making forward remarks to Ravager and she did not appreciate it." The android replied, "The issue has yet to be resolved by Superman, who is the current 'den mother' for the team."
Superboy folded his arms; "I wonder why."
Red Tornado, who didn't recognise the clone's sarcasm, replied. "I believe Superman is intimidated by her."
The android walked away and Tigress and Artemis choked out laughs while Flash and Impulse looked horrified and were gone before anyone could stop them.
Aqualad gave a world-weary sigh and lead the way after them with the archer and ex-archer bringing up the rear, still giving the occasional giggle at Superman's supposed predicament.
Cyborg, acting somewhat like a defensive barrier, was first into the room, which, in their absence, seemed to have become a two-person warzone with M'Gann, Beast Boy, Batgirl and, surprisingly, Superman all hiding at varying levels throughout the room and trying to not look like targets on the stream of destruction caused by Ravager and Kid Flash.
Impulse and Flash, meanwhile, had disappeared, presumably to raid the fridge, and were sensibly staying well out of the way until the conflict had stopped.
Artemis fell into step beside Nightwing and the two simultaneously heaved sighs of annoyance as they stepped forward to wrench the two apart.
"Who threw the first punch?" Nightwing asked.
Every person who had been in the room at the time pointed at Ravager who had the good grace to turn pink at Nightwing's pointed stare.
"He was... doing his usual. Like I didn't get enough of that from Clock King."
The future heroes collectively sent glares at Kid Flash, who shifted uncomfortably under the pressure of six simultaneous near-bat-glares. Artemis smacked him around the back of his head and he winced.
"Sorry."
Ravager smirked and jerked her thumb towards the ceiling and Nightwing glanced up at the blue and red shadow. Taking the hint he turned to Batgirl and Beast Boy; "Guys we need to get this place cleaned up before Batman arrives and kills us all-"
"Or just Rose and Wally." Beast Boy interjected.
Nightwing ignored him; "Anyway, Impulse and his cousin should be around here somewhere, probably the kitchen, could you-"
"We're on it." Batgirl saluted and tossed Nightwing a small box from her utility belt; "Try not to change history."
Nightwing caught it with a grin; "Yes ma'am."
With these words he leapt into the air and fired a grapple line, landing very neatly on a support beam beside Superman.
"Tell me, are you a responsible adult?"
Superman raised an eyebrow; "Excuse me?"
Nightwing scowled, "You're meant to be the mature one in the room, and yet here you are hiding with the rest of them. Is there something wrong with you?"
"Um..."
Below, while the speedsters whisked around straightening the room, everyone else was sniggering, with the exception of Superboy, who merely looked faintly surprised at the fact that Nightwing was, once again, tearing through Superman's dignity like it was made of paper, rather than the steel it was reputed to be.
The vigilante pointed to the floor; "Down, before I set my assassins on you."
"You've got a grand total of eight assassins and hit men under your thumb, Nightwing." Cyborg called up, "But you're forgetting that only two of them are here right now."
"Not unless you count a two year old Demon-Child." Flash said, skidding to a halt.
"And isn't Rose an ex-assassin?" Impulse skidded to a halt too.
Tigress coughed slightly and Impulse zoomed to the other side of the room as Nightwing descended.
"And who are the other five?" Ravager's eye followed Nightwing to the floor.
"Red Hood, Arsenal, Tarantula, Huntress, Black Bat." Batgirl reeled off with a bored tone, "Notice how five of them are women, three are family members, one's his best friend and the other four have been romantically linked to him in some way or another."
Nightwing choked slightly and Flash thumped him on the back while Ravager took several hasty steps away from him. Batgirl smirked and stepped aside as Superman, slowly, drifted to the floor.
"You took your time." She commented, "Scared of us surface-dwellers are you?"
Superman struggled to find an answer, and was saved the trouble of actually doing so by Red Tornado, who had entered at that point and began to type at a holo-keyboard, eventually bringing up a comm. link to Batman.
"The team was able to locate the source of the temporal anomaly in Fawcett City." The robot said, "Nightwing was able to have brief contact with the future, but Robin has not yet returned-"
Even as the android spoke, however, there was a soft 'boom' and a vortex of yellow light appeared at the middle of the room. There was a loud yelp and the light vanished, leaving a teenaged figure in its wake.
"Robin?"
The chorus of voices made the boy wonder blink very rapidly and look around. "Uh, yeah. 'Know any other boy wonders? No, wait," he interrupted himself, "Don't answer that."
Batgirl laughed, "Met Swan Queen, Demon and Hood then?"
Robin shrugged; "Yep, still haven't met the other one, although technically she's a girl wonder."
"Spoilers." Impulse muttered and Nightwing and Batgirl laughed a little.
"What's funny?" Artemis asked, arching an eyebrow.
"In joke." Ravager muttered, "You'll get it in about seven years."
Superman coughed uncomfortably and drew every eye to him; Robin cackled and nudged Ravager in the ribs; "Haven't killed him yet then?"
"If I got a dollar for every time I heard that..."
Superman raised an eyebrow and Ravager fell silent; "We need to debrief the team, our team, so if all you guys from the future could just-"
"Holding cells. Got it." Beast Boy gave a mock salute and led the way out of the control room, down two floors and into a large open space which locked with a clunk once they were all inside.
Nightwing rolled his eyes, settled himself on the floor and began to hack the computer terminal, and soon had a screen showing footage of the control room. All eight occupants of the room were soon gathered around the tiny screen, watching the scene.
The debrief was clearly over, and Batman was still on screen, clearly giving a brief for another mission.
"Three missions in one week?" Cyborg asked, "I think that's a record."
"Shh!" Tigress muttered as she strained her ears, trying to hear.
"... the complex was discovered several miles beneath Bludhaven Harbour, your mission is to infiltrate the facility, deal with any threats and shut it down."
"Wait." Flash held up a finger, "Bludhaven Harbour? Isn't that a-"
"Secret Society hideout." Ravager interrupted, "They're going to get themselves killed."
With these words the ex-assassin tugged the cover off the air vent and pulled herself into it. Nightwing cursed; "Rahat! They're not the only ones."
He turned to the others; "The rest of you, stay here. That's an order."
The others all nodded, and Nightwing swiftly followed his former protégée.
Tigress snorted; "Does he really expect us to follow through?"
"Yep." Cyborg nodded.
"Entirely." Beast Boy added.
"Shame." Tigress made for the grille too, but was stopped by the speedsters in the room.
"Don't." They spoke in unison.
"This is their fight." Batgirl added, "And I don't think anyone wants to know how Batman will react to this."
AN: Kudos and virtual cookies to anyone who got the in-joke about the girl wonder.
Next time in Blue Bird: the Team, Nightwing and Ravager fight an organisation known as the Secret Society, meet Deathstroke the Terminator, Ravager gets arrested and the whole thing probably has nothing to do with the Light.