Batman wasn't sure what Alfred would say.

Once the members of the League had gathered together again in the mission room of Mount Justice, he'd brought up the need for settling the reverse Team in safe surroundings until the situation could be remedied. Green Arrow had tentatively brought up Paula Crock's suggestion for housing the teens, who were currently keeping to the hall outside the medical bay where Black Canary was checking Zetenni's wound.

"Sounds like a good idea to me." Flash had said immediately.

"Scattering them to the wind?" Frowning, Wonder Woman glared at the two men. "I feel this would only lead to trouble, especially if they feel threatened."

"And yet, it would be simpler for providing them with proper meals." Aquaman put in.

"As well as allowing the teens to change into civilian identities, and give them the opportunities to relax." Several of the heroes looked at Batman in surprise at his words.

Arrow responded first. "You- you actually wouldn't mind them leaving the Mountain?"

"I'd been debating suggesting it to the rest of you." The Dark Knight admitted. "But it isn't up to us to decide - right, Robyn?"

A higher pitched cackle than what the Leaguers were used to echoed about the room, followed by the slender form suddenly appearing by Batman's side.

"Definitely just as good as my mentor." The girl said proudly, straightening her posture and resting her hands on her hips before continuing. "And while I can't speak for the others, I don't think they'll say no. Just, be sure that we get to come back here often until this gets fixed."

-CC-

"They seriously want to split us up?" Apollo asked, incredulous.

"A few do. The others are uneasy about it, which is why they're leaving the choice up to us." Robyn shrugged as her teammates mulled over the new development.

"Eh, since I live at the Mountain anyway, it doesn't matter much to me," Zetenni said from the medical berth he was sitting up on. "Just as long as you guys call or come in often enough I don't go bonkers."

Robyn couldn't help but smirk. "I made that pretty clear when they spoke to me about it."

"Well... I guess I wouldn't mind going to stay with my grandfather." Rocket paused. "Or is it my grandmother, here? Dang it, is everybody's gender switched in this world or is it just the heroes?"

"Everybody. I did some research using their WiFi." Pulling up the small holo-screen on her gauntlet, Robyn scrolled through a few screens too quickly for anyone but Kid Flash to follow. "Past and present political leaders, historical figures, famous writers and musicians, news casters, businesswomen - every person in this world seems to be the same as our own, just with a different look. Even the Statue of Liberty is female!"

Supergirl slowly shook her head. "Weird."

"So, that would make every boy I've ever flirted with a girl here?" KF mused. "Heh, I wonder if this world's version of me had any better luck."

"Probably not, Baywatch. And you'd better watch it with that train of thought."

"Whatever you say, Babe." Kid Flash still shot a wink to her best friend, who grinned right back. "Still, it does make me want to see what the Central City here is like."

Apollo groaned. "And stick me back at an apartment that could at any time have an assassin show up, who'd attack me first and ask questions later? No thank you."

"Oh, come one, Pol! You'd be able to hold off Cheshire long enough for your dad- er, mom- or whoever, to explain."

"... You just want to visit the West's house because you know they'll feed you a speedster's diet there."

"I cannot survive on protein bars alone!"

That, at least, got a brief chuckle out of anyone. Robyn would swear sometimes that Willow's knack for distracting people from the current situation was a second superpower to her speed.

"I would not be opposed to spending time in this world's Atlantis." Aqualass said quietly, steering their conversation back on track.

"Same for me, but with the Batcave."

Mar'gann nodded slowly. "I think it would be good for those of us not used to living at the Mountain to get out and about." Supergirl grunted an affirmative to that as well.

All eyes turned to Apollo, who crossed his arms as glared back.

"Y'know, Pol, it was this world's version of your dad who insisted on us crashing at our alternates' households." Robyn carefully said. The blond archer's eyebrows rose as he glanced at the ninja. "I overheard part of her conversation with Green Arrow. Very determined woman, it sounded like."

Apollo huffed, then growled out an answer. "I can't believe I'm agreeing to this..."

-CC-

"I can't believe I agreed to this." Chuckling, Ollie awkwardly patted the back of the bitter young man beside him.

"There wasn't much you could have done to avoid it, I think. Paula's practically the fiercest woman I know."

Apollo quirked an eyebrow at him. "Practically?"

"Well, Canary comes in first, but only when she's upset with me. The rest of the time it's Paula."

"Hmph." Inside his head, Apollo continued to compare this man with his own version of Green Arrow, or Olivia King. She hadn't been the greatest of mentors, but he was used to her, at least.

This Arrow, acting so much like Oli, was just disturbing to be around.

The two of them had arrived on the fire escape outside what Apollo would have called his apartment building. They were about to slip inside through the window of what looked just like his living room.

And when they did enter the cozy living space, there was a woman waiting in, to Apollo's eyes, his father's wheelchair.

"Paula," Green Arrow greeted her, and the woman nodded, though her gaze was reserved solely for the teen who found himself shrinking slightly from her scrutiny.

Then the woman smiled slightly, and rolled herself forward in order to reach out a hand for his.

"Hello, Apollo," She said softly. "I know this must be strange for you beyond anything I could hope to understand, but I hope you will at least feel safe here." He blinked, and offered a small smile of his own.

"Thanks, Mrs. Crock..." A frown flickered over her features. "Paula." Apollo corrected, and the lips twitched back.

"Now, I took the chance you would be close in build to my daughter, and bought some clean clothes for you to try on." She gestured towards a door at the end of the small hallway, one that the teen knew lead to what would be his bedroom. "Arrow, you are welcome to stay for dinner, if you like..."

"No thank you, Paula, I actually have plans with- Oh! Crap!" GA face-palmed himself. "I forgot to call Roy and tell him what happened!"

Apollo smirked as he walked towards the bedroom, certain that if this world's Red Arrow was anything like the Reyna he knew, Ollie was in for a rough night. Shutting the door behind him, the teen surveyed the dim bedroom, noting all the similarities to his own, as well as the plain t-shirt, jeans and leather jacket folded neatly on the far bed. There was also a pair of lace up boots on the floor beside it.

He walked over, shedding pieces of his green uniform and exchanging them for the civilian clothes, which fit surprisingly well. Apollo was just shrugging on the jacket as he turned to leave again when he spotted the poster.

It read Alice in Wonderland, and displayed a small girl with long blond hair in a blue and white dress talking to a widely grinning cat. Back home, the words would have been Arnold in Wonderland, with a little boy in white and blue.

That's when it really hit Apollo that he was in another world.

And that his arrow, one stupid, explosive-tipped arrow, was most likely what had gotten him and and his team stuck here. Because, if there was one thing the teen understood about accidents, it was that the big ones were hard to fix.

There couldn't have been much bigger than being transported across the dimensional barrier. He didn't notice when a few silent tears rolled down his face, nor when the door opened.

It wasn't until a pair of hands had grasped one of his own that Apollo glanced away from the poster, and into the warmly sympathetic eyes of Paula Crock. Then the tears weren't so silent, and the normally strong as stone teenager began to sag, dropping to his knees and resting his head in Paula's lap. She continued to provide him something to hold on to, stroking her fingers through his limp hair and whispering over and over again that everything would be okay.

But would it? And would the others blame him for it?

-CC-

"You're kidding." Jade said flatly.

"Do I seem like I'd come up with a story this crazy?" Roy got out between clenched teeth. "But if you really care about your sister, you'll help me get information on just who was in that chemical plant."

"Well, as much as I'd like to help get the baby sis and her little teammates back, what's to say I wouldn't prefer having a brother around instead?" Seriously wondering why he'd even bothered to get in touch with the assassin, Roy took a deep breath to calm himself down.

"Look. GA told me that when he left, this Apollo kid was in the middle of a pretty serious breakdown. Wherever she is, don't you think it's likely Artemis is going through the same thing?"

Jade was silent for a few minutes, her neutral expression giving Roy exactly nothing to work with. Finally she spoke. "I'll want something in return for information-gathering."

"What?" There probably wouldn't be much she wanted besides money or a get out of jail free card for future use-

"A date." That... Wasn't what he expected. At Roy's blank look, Jade smirked and put back on her Cheshire mask. "I'll be sure to bring you all the details when I get back." With that, she vanished from the rooftop, leaving a stunned hero to try and get his thoughts back together.

Growling, Roy eventually turned to leave, deciding he needed to go fuss at Ollie, just to get a sense of normalcy back into his night.