Alright...does anyone who was following this before remember how Robin and Conner were sent back in time through Warp? Well...this arc is a remix of that only it has Savage in it. Anyone remeber him? He's a bitch to write.

Don't get mad that I'm "not following" Zucco's little add-in. Just read the story and you'll see what I'm going to do with him - besides, anyone who watched the original Batman animated series knows that Robin was in college during those first few seasons, showed up sparingly, and in Robin's Reckoning he chased down Zucco. Maybe, since I do have this habit of tying stories I've read into my FanFics, I may be mixing that with this? Whoops...was that a spoiler? Darn.

Let's see how this chapter goes.

They were storming some warehouse. Conner knew that much. There was something about this Vandal Savage guy that had Wonder Woman in a screeching rage and even Superman on edge. Something about the man also had Hawkwoman cursing in Thanagarian, her friend Hawkman trying to calm her down – whilst trying to get himself calmed as well. Conner didn't see anything all that amazing about him from the picture.

The warehouse seemed to have been abandoned a few years ago but Conner couldn't help but notice the strange lack of dust on certain pieces of equipment – not to mention the expansive floors. There were few places like this that he'd seen without any dust on the walls, floors, and equipment like this place. It wasn't right. He almost thought it was as wrong as Zucco disappearing into thin air.

Robin didn't seem to have taken that all that well either.

"He murdered a family because they refused to pay for his so called protection," Robin had explained bitterly. "There were only two survivors and one of them is crippled. Some survival."

Conner sighed at the memory. It wasn't really normal for him to think that Robin was ticked off about a petty mafia member. It was easier to think of Robin ticked off at Joker or Freeze rather than a petty murderer. Though…he had read up on the Grayson family when he'd noticed Robin had given him the file along with the others.

It was still a bit difficult to think that someone killed over green colored paper. He didn't fully understand this whole thing about how paper had value when you put ink and pictures and symbols on it. The same went for hunks of metal stamped with pictures of dead men and monuments he had yet to see.

His schoolmates seemed to give him odd looks about his inability to use – understand – money. M'Gann had a better understanding of it than he did – much to his chagrin. He had a sneaking suspicion Kaldur knew the human money system better than he did too. Everyone seemed to have a better grasp on it than he did. Everything human went over his head.

Robin landed with a soft tap above his head. He glanced up to find the Boy Wonder crouching on the top a few wood crates, his domino mask with hardly any white in it considering he was glaring over the warehouse's expanse. Conner watched him a bit worriedly. He wasn't sure what to think about how strangely silent Robin was being lately.

"See anything?" he asked softly with a sigh. Robin glanced down at him and couldn't quite shrug off the worried look on Conner's face when he saw it.

"No…What's biting you?"

Conner looked confused. "Nothing's biting me," he muttered as he looked himself over a bit confused. Robin snorted, a hand shooting over his mouth and nose as he tried to stifle the sound. Conner gave him a confused glare. "What?"

"It's an expression," Robin snickered. "It's like asking what's wrong."

"Then just ask what's wrong."

"No need to sound so dejected Superboy," Robin snickered, his fist up to his mouth in a vain attempt to strangle the laughter.

"Well forgive me for not understanding a human expression," Conner grumbled childishly. Robin snickered harder. "Would you stop laughing at me?"

"If you'd stop being so entertaining I would," Robin smiled happily. Conner sighed; secretly glad to see that smile back on Robin's face.

"Glad to know I'm entertaining," Conner retorted as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Are you over whatever was biting you now?"

"A bit," Robin shrugged.

"Then I'm getting over what's bothering me," Conner replied easily. Robin smiled at his friend a bit wistfully; idly wondering what had been bothering his friend but he wasn't about to press when they were on a mission and should be paying attention. Savage was supposedly not a person to trifle with but then again nor was Kobra.

"Great," Robin sighed as he shifted and dropped to the floor beside Conner. "I think…Did you read up on this guy?"

"Yeah," Conner sighed as he slunk through the crates. Robin followed almost soundlessly behind him, his cape barely even moving as he followed the broader boy. "I didn't find out much though; just that he's had a few prior run-ins with the League. Something about time travel to something called a World War 'I' 'I' and also something about a foreign princess."

Robin snickered again.

"What is it now?" Conner groaned, feeling M'Gann reach his head again, the others – the usual ones at least – following her. From the look on Robin's face he'd noticed the thinner boy had noticed it too.

"The way you pronounced it," Robin chuckled. "It's said World War Two."

"Then why put two 'I's there?"

"Roman numerals," Robin explained. "I'll show them to you sometime."

"Alright…Make sure you do."

Robin smiled at him with a bit of a mischievous glint on his face. Conner found himself wondering once more what color the boy's eyes were. For some reason he wanted them to be Grayson's deep blue. Maybe it was because he'd been around the kid and saved him a couple times that he wanted it that way. It would be nice to have eyes that had looked up to him.

He found himself thinking again on how Robin's voice had been there right before he jumped to another roof top a few weeks before. He was still wondering just how strong the telepathic bonds were for him to have heard Robin's voice when he wasn't supposed to be anywhere near them at that time. They must have been strong for Conner to have heard him. Maybe it was just his imagination though; Robin did have the same communicators they did. Maybe he'd just happened to have been keeping an eye on them and had called in with a tip or two.

"Is it possible to pay attention to the mission?" Kaldur's voice echoed in their minds, low and firm with commanding airs. Conner could just imagine Robin rolling his eyes.

"Sure Aqualad, we'll do that," Robin replied with a bit of snark in his tone. His hand gripped Conner's t-shirt sleeve gently and tugged it a bit. Conner shook his head with a soft snort before following the shorter boy.

"He sounds better," Wally's voice laughed.

"Glad to hear," Artemis sighed, fingering her bowstring. She sounded sarcastic but there was a glow of joy in the background. M'Gann was giggling in the background somewhere too.

"Everyone please," Kaldur chided gently. "Focus on the mission."

"Yes Fearless Leader," most of them chimed back – Artemis, Wally, and Robin. M'Gann was giggling again while Kaldur groaned at their apparent immaturity. Conner smiled gently to himself and at the back of Robin's head. It was good to see the kid smiling again. He seemed more natural with the smile on his face than a frown or a scowl.

They moved towards the east side of the warehouse, Conner thinking the place was bigger than it should have been if one went off the blueprints of it. It seemed too long and a bit too high to be to code. Robin shrugged it off as permit allowances or a few feet on at least height but he didn't fully understand why there'd been lead installed in the walls and roof.

That couldn't really be explained away all that easily though – especially when Superman said his x-ray vision had proved that the lead went quite a few feet down beneath them. Conner could hear extra floors vibrating under his footsteps like the ground was unnaturally hollow. He was a bit tempted to jump into the rafters and let gravity drag him through the concrete floors but that would be too loud.

They were supposed to be stealthy.

He was tired of stealthy.

"Hey," Robin suddenly hissed to him. They'd searched their entire section and had so far found nothing of interest. Trust Robin to find a secret door, the pitch black opening gaping at them, Robin looking small next to it. "Think we should look?"

Conner nodded an affirmative, pressing a finger to his ear to signal them they'd found something. Naturally, as he did so, Robin disappeared into the darkness. He growled and followed after the boy thinking hard about their position and where he'd found the door so M'Gann would get the others to come to back them up.

He heard a whoosh behind him and a muttered curse from Wally before it was followed by the speedster scrambling through after them – hopefully. It was darker than it had seemed from the warehouse but Conner could manage a bit well with his high leveled hearing. Robin…he narrowed his eyes and saw the faint green glow of night vision goggles in front of him. He smiled wondering why he'd even bothered being worried.

"Wow," Robin breathed, pulling the goggles off his head as the path got a bit too bright for them to be useful. Conner's own blue eyes widened in surprise at the sheer drop the walls took save for the spiral staircase that went from the opening to the wide floor. There was something deeper there too; something glowing with a console arching around its lip.

"Wow is right," Wally huffed with a laugh. "This place is huge…Better call…" He trailed off, finger on his ear. "No signal."

"Use the telepathy," Robin suggested gently. Wally smiled nervously before staring up the vaulted ceiling as if the others would just fall through if he summoned them through thought.

"Miss Martian," he called in his stupid sultry voice. Robin clenched a fist and nearly glared at him. Conner placed a hand on Robin's shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze. "We found something here!"

"We saw from Conner," she replied. "We're on our way."

"Wait until you see this," Wally laughed. "And Rob's already done his thing and disapp-Superboy! Get back here!"

"We're coming," Kaldur stated and Wally could feel them begin to rush to them.

He sighed and sped after the two idiots he had for friends. Robin had the stupid tendency of disappearing into the shadows while Conner…was Conner. There wasn't much stopping them when they set their minds to something. Robin would strip you of logic and moves while Conner would glare at you and look like impending doom if he didn't just beat you into a wall. Really, there wasn't much stopping them once their minds were made up.

He found Robin at the console, Conner hovering over him like a protector. Wally blinked. He'd seen that hover before. Batman did it all the time when Robin was doing something important and Batman was taking care of the bad guys. Though, whenever he saw it, he and Flash were taking care of the bad guys while Batman walked Robin through something, beating anyone who managed to get past the two speedsters to a bloody pulp.

When had Conner started hovering like that?

"Guys? I think we should stay away from the weird computers," the jokester called. "Remember the last time we screwed with weird computers?"

"Yeah," Robin muttered. "We got a great teammate from it remember?"

Wally gave a nervous laugh and scratched the back of his neck with the same unease. Conner sent him a devilish smile.

"You two have to stop hanging out with each other," Wally sighed with a shake of his head.

"My goodness, the League has brought up protégé's that even I am a bit impressed by," a deep voice called from above their heads. Their heads shot up to find a finely dressed man with black hair slicked back with something shinny. His shoulders were broader than Conner's and he was a bit shorter than Superman. Either way, he smiled down at them like he was a god and waited for them to react.

"You must be Savage," Robin hissed, hand shooting to his utility belt. Conner fell into a fighting stance and Wally suddenly wanted to race to the others to tell them to hurry their butts up before coming back to help Conner and Robin. Though…Savage wasn't to be taken lightly so he stayed for his friends' sakes. Maybe this was the type of person someone shouldn't screw with on their own; hence why Batman sent in the non-stealthy stealth team.

Right.

Glad that was cleared up.

"You are correct, young bird," Savage replied. "The Batman has been a very good opponent to me. I hope he's been as good a teacher."

A metal disk shot from Robin's hand towards Savage's head. He caught it, gazed at it for moment, and then held it away from himself and dropped it before it exploded. The man smiled at the wide-eyed boys below.

"He…caught it," Robin murmured softly so only he and Conner could hear him. Wally's hearing had shut down as soon as he'd seen that event but it was understandable. There was a crash and high pitched yelp from the high door but it was quickly ignored by all within the whirring room.

Vandal Savage had decided to attack then, leaping over the balcony he'd stood on and charging the boys before him. Robin leapt backwards, flipping into the air as Wally dashed away towards the others to tell them to hurry personally – sometimes, telepathy just didn't go far enough.

Conner caught the man's fist and countered only to be brushed off like a doll. Savage laid into him for a little while then, fists flying and face split in a smirk, until Robin flew at him with a flying kick. Conner added his own punch to be on the safe side only to see it caught in Savage's meaty hand. There was a sick smile on the man's face as he shoved Conner away and tossed Robin towards the console before smacking Kaldur away and dodging arrows.

What is this guy, Conner thought as he bounced back to his feet, blue eyes glaring about the room for something he could use to slow the man down a few pegs.

They fell on Robin as if by nature, watching as he gripped the metal bar near the edge of the drop behind him, eyes narrowed as he glared back at the man. Conner knew he was watching Savage's movements as Kaldur and Wally danced about him, M'Gann and Artemis trying to get in a few hits here and there. He charged the bigger man suddenly, as if he hoped the surprise attack would do him some good, only to be smacked away again. He flew backwards with a grunt as his back hit the bar.

Conner's eyes widened as he tipped backward a bit too far and toppled over the bar.

"Got you!" Conner yelped as he felt his hand find purchase about Robin's small wrist. The little bird latched both hands onto the bigger boy's wrist quickly as they both slipped further over the edge into the glowing drop off.

"Superboy…" Robin grunted as Conner slipped again, his free hand snapping to the bars above his head. "Don't you dare…let go of that bar."

"Like I want to," Conner grumbled. He glanced over his shoulder to find the others still fighting Savage like they hadn't seen what was happening. His hand felt Robin slip and he flinched to get ready to catch him again causing the hand on the bar to slip a bit.

"Superboy…" Robin warned a bit weakly. He shook his head at his friend as if to beg him to not let go of his arm. Like Conner would even think of doing such a thing.

"Don't let go of my arm Robin," Conner hissed. "Don't you dare let go of that arm." Robin gave a nod and Conner looked back over his shoulder to the others. "We have a problem here!" he shouted at them. Wally and M'Gann were the first to look over at them, Savage's eyes following.

"No!" Savage roared, fear and worry seeping into his beady eyes as Wally raced to his friends. "Pull them up!"

Something happened then that would make him always wonder if there really was such a thing as fate or destiny; the ground buckled, the drop off suddenly a lot closer than it had been before. He let go of the bar to push Wally away from the edge as hard as he could, trying to ignore Robin's tightening grip on his wrist before his stomach went into his mouth as they plummeted into the bright glow below. He was blinded for a few seconds before everything went black.

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