"So what'd we miss?"

"Why don't we go to the hall to discuss this? I mean unless you guys want to talk about it in the middle of space." Said flash with a laugh

"Well," started impulse, "seeing as we've been gone….how long have we been gone?"

"8 years." The team looked at each other and everyone but lightning triton and nightwing yelled "8 years!" suddenly there was uproar, the members of the team, besides lightning triton and nightwing, started talking quickly.

"Enough," yelled nightwing, "we talked about this team. We all knew that a lot of time was going to pass while we were gone."

"That's easy for you to say. You don't have any family," retorted impulse, "oh my god wing I so didn't mean it like that."

"Yes you did but its ok imp. Truly it's ok I'm used to it."

"Why don't we go to the hall now?"

*in the hall of justice meeting room*

Everyone quickly took a seat and the league members saw that the team had some sort of seating arrangement premade for they all sat down without a word or even a glance.

"So," superman started but before he could finish nightwing spoke up a, "why don't you guys just ask us what you want to know."

"Well don't you want to know what's been going on in the world since you left?" wonder woman asked with a frown.

"Nightwing, m'gaan, and bio all worked together to connect to earth data streams to track and download all data pertaining to major earth events," started tigress. "That's a bunch of techy mumbo jumbo for they hacked the earth." finished impulse.

"Bio?" was the only thing flash could think to ask.

"Short for bioship. And is that really the first question, not 'you hacked earth' no you ask about the name of the alien spaceship, was it really smart to leave them in charge of the planet we hacked?" impulse directed the last of this to the other members of the team.

"Imp be nice."

"Sorry."

"I'm confused if you were getting feeds from earth then how didn't you know how long you were gone?" aquaman questioned.

"We could only connect to earth while we were stationary so we had to download everything we could whenever we were stopped. And we haven't stopped, I estimate, in the last 3 earth years. Except for right before we landed which is when we caught the newest data." Nightwing stated in an authoritative voice as if he couldn't believe they were asking such, in his opinion, dumb questions.

"Well then…how was…." "We won" kon-el cut in quickly.

"Well go on tell us more about what happened." Green lantern said with a wink and a smile.

"We traveled, we trained, we fought, we nearly died, we won, and we came home end of story." Kon-el said with a scowl.

"Come on," green lantern complained, "give us more details. It had to have been the coolest thing ever…. What?" lantern asked as he looked up and saw tigress and lightning triton physically holding kon-el back.

"You only need to know the general details nothing more. If you want to know about the enemy that's fine but we won't go in depth about what happened," Nightwing stated, "you can ask questions but we maintain the right to not answer."

"That's fair I guess." Superman said uncertainly.

"So how long did it take you to get there?"

"Roughly 3 years"

"So the battle took 2 years?"

"No the battle took 6 months before they were defeated."

"Then why did it take you so long to get home?"

"We were injured, there was spaceship rubble everywhere. Not to mention we had to look for captives, survivors. That took another 6 months not to mention we had to search their planet and gather information about their species."

"Why would you need to gather information about a now extinct species?"

"Because they were a species we hadn't seen before. They had a completely different style of fighting and war. We weren't going to pass up the chance for more knowledge. And who said they were extinct?"

"That was your job," Flash yelled, "you were supposed to wipe out the race that was trying to KILL us."

"No," nightwing said with venom, "our job was to defeat the enemy that was trying to kill us. But did you know that the planet was divided into two. That one part of the race had taken over another because they wanted to change their ways and lose their old beliefs so they took over a supposed NON-VIOLENT people. When we first came to the planet we integrated to learn about the people we were fighting. When we did that we learned who the enemy was and took them down. We helped those that had been enslaved and in exchanged they taught us their ways in hopes that we would use them to protect and care for others not in a form of violence. That was when we finished our new identities. And just so you know do to their advancements in technology we were able to upgrade bio and come back in six months."

The adults sat in silence. Before them were not the children they sent into space but adults who had seem and done a lot of things. They were changed people gone were the kids, gone was their little robin. The team looked at the adults and realization dawned on them.

"It must be a shock," nightwing said in a gentler voice than a few minutes ago, "you sent away your apprentices and expected to get them back. But that's not who we are entirely. We had to grow up so we could survive. We made these changes so that we could come home and be with you. We have changed but," he looks to his team members around him who all nod to him, "we are still your kids and we want to get to know you again because we realize we aren't the only ones who changed." He said the last part while looking at batman sadly.

"Well then I guess we'll just have to get to know each other better," suddenly superman stopped when he heard a strange beeping sound.

"Team we have a problem!" nightwing yelled while looking at a strange device on his arm.

"Sorry we will be back in a little while." Said impulse with a shrug. The team quickly beamed to the watch tower and boarded the bioship all before the adults knew what had happened.

*an hour later*

"We should've gone after them." Said a worried wonder woman.

"They're fine," said flash casually, "yeah we're fine." Said impulse who had just entered the meeting room.

"We got a mission from one of the neighboring planets that we had to take care of." Said lightning triton

"You help other planets?"

"Yes we realized that we couldn't train on our own so we would go to other planets and make friends with the locals. In exchange we gave them a communicator so that if they needed us they could call on us and we would come." Triton explained

"What if you were too far away to get there in time?"

"The communicators work as transporters as long as we're on bio. Basically the communicators give the info to bio who quickly 'beams' to that location. It's kind of like the transporters the league uses except on a larger scale." Nightwing explained

"Okay I think that's enough excitement for one night. So we were talking while you were gone and thought, if you were okay with it, you could stay with your mentors while you're getting used to being on Earth." The team looked at each other for a moment and then as one they nodded to lightning triton.

"That would be good as long as it isn't an inconvenience for you guys."

"Great and superboy I mean kon-el you are welcome to stay with me if you want." Superman offered

"That would be great thank you."

"Good then we will meet here tomorrow."

A/N:

Next few chapters will be about each team member on this first night back

Leave a review about how you want certain team member's relationships to go. I have a rough idea but I love getting new ideas.