Disclaimer: I'm not very good at writing action, I mostly like writing dialogue and romance (but romance doesn't fit into this story). Both characters are known for being witty so I tried to emulate that and tried to fit in some action, hope you like it.

P.S. I'm sure you already know by now that I don't own the characters or anything else related to YJ/Batman.

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Chapter 2: Distractions

Once the smoke cleared, the Joker saw the group of teens had disappeared.

"It's such a shame, young heroes these days are such cowards." The Joker said out loud to himself.

"It's a shame everyone has little faith in today's youth." A familiar young voice said from behind him.

When the Joker looked behind him, he saw Robin swirling around in the chair behind the desk, with a mischievous grin on his face.

"Oh, dear Robin. Of course you're the obvious exception." The Joker patronized, "But that team of yours has little valor to abandon their youngest teammate at a time like this."

"They have their reasons.' Robin said stalling. "Virtuous reasons at that."

"Poor delusional boy, obviously Batman hasn't taught you about friendship." The Joker said, with mock sympathy in his voice. "Well, allow me. Real friends don't ditch you and real friends don't leave their friends alone in the hands of someone who has almost killed said friend on several occasions."

"Seems like you know a lot about a subject you have no experience in." Robin taunted.

"I'll have you know that I have plenty of friends, you little brat." The Joker said angrily before he started pacing around the office and ranting on about his list of friends, almost as if he were trying to prove to Robin he had friends.

'Robin, we've found the bomb and placed the magnet on it.' Artemis said over the mental link a few minutes into the jokers rant.

'Good. Now I need you both to help KF and Superboy with the hostages.' Robin reasoned. 'Also, Miss M, I need you to cut me off from the mental link.'

'What?' M'gann asked worried for the teammate she saw as a younger brother. 'Robin, that's not safe. What if you need back up?'

'I can handle this, besides this is a battle I need to fight on my own.' The young leader insisted. 'Robin out.'

Robin pressed a few buttons on his computerized sleeve to activate the tech scrambler on the bomb.

"Are you even paying attention?" The Joker said as he saw Robin fiddling with his glove under the desk.

"My mistake, you do have a lot of friends." Robin finally said aloud. "And since you're such a good sharer, maybe I should share some things about myself with you."

"Well, by all means." The villain played along.

"You see, there are things about me that are obvious: Batman's protégé, expert at hand-to-hand combat, master of acrobatics and computer hacking." The Boy Wonder almost boasted as he stood up from the chair and stared out of the tinted window where he saw the Gotham PD and his friends carrying and leading the hostages out. "But there is one thing that very few people know about me, even the majority of my teammates."

"And what, pray tell, would that be?" The Joker, seeing this as a perfect opportunity, said as he reached for a switchblade from his pocket.

"I come from a long line of people who were misunderstood and discriminated against." Robin said flatly still gazing out the window.

"Oh, come now. I doubt a young Caucasian male in New England faces much racism." The older male said getting closer to the boy as he opened the knife.

"The hurtful things I hear people say isn't because of my skin color and I know it's not always directed at me." The young vigilante stated. "They say thoughtless comments out of old habits."

"Yes, the world can be a cruel and thoughtless place." The Joker assured in a soothing tone, "That's why sometimes it's just better todisconnect yourself from the world." The older man said as he went in for the attack.

The Boy Wonder quickly turned around and counter attacked by grabbing the Joker's wrist and twisting it behind his back, causing the villain to drop his weapon- which Robin confiscated and placed into a compartment in his utility belt.

'That should cover Wally's souvenir.' Robin thought to himself.

At that point, the Joker struggled free from the boy's grip and turned around to face him in a guarded position.

"Well played, Robin." The Joker said in a calm tone. "I must say I should have seen it coming. After all, it is the oldest trick in the book: create a sob story to get your opponent's guard down then wait for an opportunity to attack. Bravo."

"Thanks, but my story was very real." The young vigilante informed the villain. "And neither of us is leaving this building until you apologize."

"Apologize?" The Joker couldn't help but scoff. "Dear boy, I thought you would understand by now that villains don't apologize for attempting to kill their enemies."

"Trust me; I've learned to accept that a long time ago." The teen assured. "I'm talking about your thoughtless comment from earlier."

"Now you're trying to accuse me of being prejudice?" The Joker said. "I'm a lot of things, Wonder Boy; but a bigot, I am not. I harm all people equally regardless of: race, nationality, religion, age, gender, orientation, and marital status."

"You may not discriminate directly, but that mouth of yours sure does." Robin said keeping his guard up.

"You're seriously getting bent out of shape over the jokes I made about teenagers?" The painted villain asked.

"Honestly, I'm not a fan of those either; but that's not what I'm talking about." Batman's protégé affirmed.

"Enough with the mind games, Boy Blunder; I'm getting old here." The villain complained as he brought out another switchblade. "You have 10 seconds to cut to the chase… before I cut you."

"Fine, remember earlier what I said about my ancestors being discriminated?" The Boy Wonder asked.

"Yes." The Joker confirmed.

"Well, I come from a family of travelers." Robin explained. "They were treated as second class citizens and thought to be underhanded thieves and tricksters. In many cases, it was believed they used magic to deceive people."

"As interesting as your family origin is..." The Joker said with an evil grin on his face, as he opened the switchblade "Your time is up."

The Joker took a swing at Robin with his knife, Robin dodged it.

"That's the problem with villains these days: so impatient." Robin said sarcastically with a sigh.

"Now who's the one stereotyping?" The Joker implied. "Enough of these circle games and forget the president." Joker said as he reached for his remote to press the button to activate his bomb. "What? There should be an alarm going off. Why isn't this working?!"

"Remember the friends that 'ditched' me?" Robin asked the confused clown. "They found your bomb and put a scrambler on it so that I could deactivate it."

"Ugh! I paid more for the deluxe model. They claimed it was the most reliable on the market." The Joker said angrily. "Those fools! What a gyp."

The Joker attempted another stab at Robin, who at this point jumped on the desk then on top of the tall book case.

"There you go again, making those derogatory comments." Robin shouted from on top of the sturdy book case.

"Enough already; now you're just playing mind games because I never said anything offensive about travelers." The Joker said trying to reach the young teen.

"Like I said, most of the comments people make are indirect." Robin said reaching in his utility belt as he distracted the Joker with his words. "You just said that you we're 'gypped', just like you said earlier."

"So?" The Joker said as he began to attempt to climb up the book case.

"So… You may not know this, but travelers are often referred to as gypsies." The teen informed the older male before he continued. "If you think you got 'gypped' before; just wait until I'm through with you." Robin said as he dropped another smoke tablet on the floor.

The Joker fell to the floor as the smoke clouded his view and he heard Robin's ninja cackle shift around the room.