Hey, I'm baaaack😄. Sorry about not updating but my creative writing class had a, no joke, Fanfiction writing assignment so I decided to use this but she put a limit on how long it could be and it needed a decent ending and this chapter probably would go over that limit and not really qualify as an ending so….yeah, here's chapter 3.
It took a while but after getting over the initial chaos of 'hey, you're in the future', Red Robin and Batgirl lead them out to the med bay to check over Wally while Beast Boy went ahead to alert someone.
"so" Red Robin began, trying to be social. "How'd you all get here?"
Wally looked up from where he was sitting, having woken up and been debriefed. "Had a bit a run in with joker while fighting Mirror Master, went a bit southward when he activated his portal thingy."
"'Portal thingy'?" Artemis sneered at the speedster. "You might want to rethink being science 'prodigy' Baywatch."
While the two began to argue the others turned back to the conversation.
Robin smirked at the male part of the future natives. "So, Red Robin huh? Anyone ever yell 'yum' when you walk in the room?"
The older boy in question smiled down at his predecessor. "Only those with a death wish…" His smile turned into what looked like an annoyed pout. "Or my older Bother...Brothers….actually I think they have death wishes themselves."
Batgirl chuckled at her partner. "You are pretty fun to tease boy wonder."
At this Batman and robin frowned, recognizing the title, the earlier scanning over the older boy.
"'boy wonder'" He asked raising an eyebrow and secretly glancing between Robin and the older boy.
"Not like you're thinking." Came his rushed reply as others began to think the same as the Bat. "I mean, I was Robin, but I'm not him."
At this many of the occupants, specifically their Gotham based ones, grew confused. But before any more questions could be asked a green leopard ran into the room and then proceeded to turn into Beast boy, who snapped to attention with a mock solute. "I have successfully contacted help, he should be here in a few minutes."
Batgirl smiled at her younger college. "Great, who'd you call?"
"Nightwing"
At that name both batgirl and Red robin's eyes widened and then snapped at their green friend with their voices overlapping, past company forgotten.
"Nightwing!?" Red Robin snapped "what were you thinking he's already up to his neck in work!"
"But he said he could handle-The poor changeling tried to defend himself before Batgirl cut him off.
"Of course he SAID that, when has Nightwing ever not tried to help with something if thought he could?!" she stressed, one hand on her hip and the other waving around.
"You couldn't have called ANYONE else? The poor guy's goanna run himself into the ground and I am not ready to perform his funeral! Does he even know what's going on!?" Red ranted with his partner.
Beast boy gritted his teeth and stood up straighter, trying to be heard amongst the yelling. "I tried but everyone else I called was busy! Not to mention you 'Bat clan' people only ever seem to your own, so i thought it was a god idea!"
The bickering would have continued on after that with the two defending that that wasn't true be their company was getting annoyed.
"Enough!" Conner yelled holding his ears, "jeez, stop shouting, there's nothing that can be done now anyway."
The two bats turned red at the reminder of their surroundings and the appearances they were supposed to uphold and immediately straightened out and molded their features to imply indifference, Red Robin especially, before addressing the time travelers. "Right, It seems that Kid Flash has sustained no real damage." He paused looking over at Wally and the scan results. "All we can do now is wait for Nightwing, if you want we can all wait in the commons area, that's where he'll most likely be." With that the team stood and followed the three out even though they knew the way. Batman hung back however after seeing Robin not moving, an expression of deep thought on his son's face. They sat there for a moment hearing bits of the fading conversation, such as Kaldur asking who Nightwing was, to which Batgirl's fading voice replied; "He's Red Robin's older brother, the whole clans older brother kind of." After that everyone's voices faded out and Batman turned to Robin.
"What's wrong?"
Slowly Robin let out a breath, shaking his head. "Nothing, just thinking. He said he was Robin…but he's not me…what does that mean for me, I would never give up Robin. And Batgirl, well there's her too, but she said something about a 'clan' and best boy did too…." The boy trailed off, so idea forming that he didn't want to speak about. Holding back a sigh, Batman wrapped his cape around the young bird, like he used to when Robin was younger. Robin himself immediately snuggled up next to the man he considered a father, moments like these were rare outside of uniform now a days, much less in uniform. They stayed like that for a heartbeat or two before Batman spoke. "I can't say what this means, but remember, be careful what you ask there may be things in your future that you may not want to know." It wasn't exactly the most comforting statement, but it worked for them. It would have to anyway, because almost as if on queue, the zeta beams went of right then announcing the someone's arrival.
"Nightwing B-01"
"'B-01'?" Robin breathed "but that's…." he jumped out of Batman's hold and they shot off to the commons room.
Well there's chapter three sorry it's so short but I really wanted to get this out for you guys. I'll try to get the next one out soon but with final exams coming up….well I'll still try.