An Apprentice's Future

By: Malaizjan Dejesus & Reina Grayson

Author's Note: This is the climatic installment of the Batman Beyond Saga. Everything is coming together and this is the crossover fic. If you're a fan of either this series or Young Justice, than you will enjoy this! I am going to list the theme songs to various DC tv series and most of the theme songs can be found on Music of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary, which is available now, and the YJ Theme song is on its own album titled: Young Justice, which is also available. So if you don't have them, I suggest you go and buy them both!

Also, I had lots of help with this story. Reina Grayson deserves half the credit in getting 80% of this fic done. And this chapter alone is 80% hers.

Chapter 7

Music Playing: Young Justice Theme Song

Watchtower, 2040

Artemis sat with Brian in the Infirmary. She held his limp hand, hoping that he would be okay. Meygan and her son Vincent hadn't returned from the past and that worried her a bit. Mostly because Vincent was her only child, one that she had with Roy. And it wasn't like they were dating or anything. She still hadn't told Vincent the truth. It was a mission gone wrong in Antarctica. Roy and her were stuck there for a week because everyone thought they were dead. Things had happened. And after they were rescued, her and Jackson had a homecoming like no other. 9 months later, Vincent Roland Crock was born.
She had believed that Jackson was his dad but a DNA test at birth said otherwise. And she never told Roy and he died not knowing. Jackson and her broke up a few years later and she raised Vincent alone. But she never had the heart to tell Vincent who his dad was.
And that wasn't a smart thing. Because somehow he knew. He knew Roy was his dad. And then he got to meet him.
That was frightening. Because at this moment, he was in the past. With his real dad. And would he want to stay?
Then there was Wally. They were single parents, Wally looking after Vincent and her looking after Brian. They found their way back to each other. And now, he was taken out by the LOD. IN which Meygan and Vincent were trying to undo.
One hand fluttered to her stomach. She made a vow to tell Wally about their child that was coming. She was only 11 weeks along but she learned from not telling Roy; she couldn't do that again to another father.
A rush of air came behind her and she grinned. Her son had done it.
"Hello, beautiful," came Wally's deep voice. His arms wrapped his arms around her shoulders from behind.
"You're back!" she cried. She turned in the embrace and hugged Wally for all that he was worth.
Wally chuckled. "Let's go kick the LOD's ass," said The Flash.
"Wally...I need to tell you something." Artemis eased herself from his arms. She stared in his eyes. She took one of his hands and placed it on her stomach.
His eyes widened. "No way..."
"Meygan protected her...for us," she said. "And put Brian in a coma."
Wally had tears in his eyes. "A girl...we're having a daughter..."
"Wally, you're back!" cried Gear as he stood in the doorway of the Infirmary. He reached for his comm link. "Everyone, Wally's back! THEY DID IT!" he cried happily.
Wally and Artemis laughed.
"Wally?" said Terra as she came from the bathroom within the Infirmary.
Wally's jaw dropped. "TERRA!" He raced over and hugged her tightly. "You're back too!"
"Yeah...crushing me, Speedy Gonzalez."
Wally let go of Terra, and couldn't believe that she hadn't aged a day... "I can't believe it."
"I know. No one can."
"WALLY!" Dick ran over and hugged the living daylights out of his remaining best friend.
"Hey, Dick."

"I can't believe it; you're back." Dick whispered, and Wally had picked up on a hitch in his 'brother's' voice.
"You couldn't have missed me that much; and besides, did you really doubt that Meygan wouldn't save me." Wally said as he moved his arms the best he could to hug Dick back.
"I knew she would, but you just don't know how happy I am to see you again."Dick said releasing his 'brother' from the hug.
"Let's go see the others." Wally said with a huge smile on his face and the two of them started to leave the room.
"Better find Areina first; she's engaged now." Dick said.
Wally stopped walking and when Dick looked at his face, his mouth was hanging open. "Are you kidding me, and you didn't kill the guy."
"I tried, but she and Meygan put a stop to it when Mathen and I went after Kevin and Orin." Dick said as they started walking again.
"Why Kevin?"
"He and Meygan were… 'together', and I walked in on them." Dick said, a bit on anger in his voice at the word 'together'.
"NO WAY!" Wally said. Wow, he DID miss so much.
"Yea, you missed a lot; but now you're back, so everything will get back to normal." Dick said, and that's when they made their way into the main room.
Everyone was ecstatic to see the Scarlet Speedster again, and he hugged them all, then he saw Areina and went right over to her.
"Hey fire bug; heard you were engaged now, and to Orin; that's incredible." Wally said as Areina saw him.
"Yea, after you vanished from the timeline, Atlantis needed help; and after Merlin sent me a special charm I went to help Kaldur and Orin. After the threat was neutralized, I saw all the happy couples there, and well…..the rest is history." Areina said as she blushed.
"Well, I know that your uncle and cousin have SOME dibs, and probably your little brother too, but I'm in line to kick his butt should he break your heart." Wally said.
"I know Uncle Wally, I know." Areina remarked.
"It is good to see you back, Wally." A familiar, proper speaking voice said.
"Kaldur, I heard you went to Atlantis, does that mean…" Wally asked
"Yes, my friend, the exile is lifted and I may return whenever I wish." Kaldur said as he walked up to Wally and hugged the third founder of the first generation team.
"Who knew that my being removed from the timeline would bring about so much change." Wally joked.
"All for the better, Wally… all for the better." Kaldur remarked; a smile on his face.
Wally was happy to be back; and now he was just waiting for his son to come out of that coma that Meygan put him in to save him.

Bruce arrived outside of his second son's room; he knew that Koriand'r meant a lot to Jason, but no one should watch a friend die in their arms. He was about to knock when a voice came from inside the room.
"I know it's you, Bruce; come on in."
Bruce followed the voice's instructions and the door opened to show Jason Todd sitting on his bed. The original Dark Knight had known so much loss over the decades, but right now his son was hurting, and he had to console him.
"I'm sorry about Starfire." Batman said, having always called the Tamaranian by her hero name.
"She didn't have to take the shot to save me, I would have been fine." Jason said as he looked up at his father.
"You and she have been through so much. I'm sorry." Bruce said. He didn't care about the blood stained gloves on the floor, or the fact that there was green blood covering Jason's pants and Kevlar tunic. Bruce walked over and hugged his son. Jason then just let the floodgates open and cried at the loss of the only other person that accepted him as he was between the sides of good and evil.

In the Past, at Watchtower…

Meygan sat in the chair that Batman provided. And Watchtower got a whole lot ghost townish, for missions had popped up, leaving just Roy, Wally, Reiena, and Dick from the team and from the League, Batman, Green Arrow and Superman. She and Vincent anxiously waited for Meygan to activate her comm to talk to her dad.

"Feeling up to it?" Vincent asked.

"Always." She then tapped her computer gauntlet and then her earpiece. On the other end, there was a major celebration going on. "Um…hello?" she said.

"Meygan, he's back!" cried Mathen's voice over the comm. "We're celebrating! And Molly and the young members of Beta Squad freed the retired heroes! WE WON!"

Vincent was shocked. "Wait-MOLLY went on a mission? To fight!?"

Then the older Nightwing came on the line. "Meyg? Why aren't you back?"

"I uh I had a few complications in the Speed Force. I need time to recover my strength," she said. She noted the stares she got from Vincent and her dad in the past.

"Did you get Ian?"

"Locked up and waiting for transport," Vincent chimed in.

"That's my kids. So go ahead and recover. And can you wake up Brian? Your Uncle Wally wants to hug his son."

"Sure…" Meygan closed her eyes for a few minutes. She then opened them, a faint red tint to her blue eyes. "Okay. Done. Give him an hour. Better get the food ready. Those two are going to eat out Watchtower."

"Your mom's got that." Future Dick then got serious. "Are you sure I shouldn't send Raven to you? Are you really okay?"

"Dad, I'm fine. Let Aunt Raven rest. I'll be back in a few hours."

"Yeah, go celebrate. How much time do we have until the timeline resets itself?" Vincent asked.

"Hey Richie; how long until the timeline's fixed!" Future Dick yelled.

"22 hours and 17 minutes," came Gear's response.

"Did you get that?" Dick asked his daughter.

"Yeah. Thanks. See you in a bit." And Meygan cut the communication.

Vincent folded his arms to stare at Meygan. "You're okay, aren't you?"

"Yeah. I just wanted to rest."

"Uh, mm-mmm." Vincent knew what was up.

Meygan sighed. "Like I didn't notice that you wanted to stay. GO hang with your dad. I gave you a few more hours." Meygan saw how his eyes lit up.

"Thanks!" He hugged Meygan hard and she was clearly uncomfortable with it. He eventually let go and went to his dad. "Okay. Show me Star City."

Roy looked shocked.

"I protect it in my time," he added. "I just…I wanted to see it…through your eyes."

"Ok. GA?" Roy asked, seeing that Star City was technically Oliver's city, not his.

"Mind if I tag?" Oliver asked. It would be nice. It was night already.

"Sure. Whatever," Roy said.

Vincent just grinned. "Oh, hey Batman? Could you give Meygan a bag of the cure to the Fear Toxin? She never finished it and…well, you know…"
"VINCENT!" cried Meygan. "I don't need a baby-sitter!"

"I know…but don't make me tell on you to your dad. He'd ground you for a week."

"I'll just run away to Uncle Jason's again," Meygan said.

The twins' eyes were wide. "Jason?" they both said at once.

"Yeah. Long story."

"Which you can tell-after we get you to the Bat Cave. To get the cure." Batman glared and Meygan knew better than to try and challenge that look.

"Fine," she sighed.

"I'll go too!" Wally added. "You can meet Alfred."

"Agent A? He's alive right now?" Meygan said, not realizing that maybe she could do that favor for Red Hood after all. "Fine, let's go."

Superman chuckled as both teens from the future were ushered off. He was glad that they would get to see the past. But he wondered; why hadn't anyone tried to erase their memories of these two coming? Something else was at work here. So he waited until he was the only one there to head to the holding cells.

He wanted to talk to this Ian himself.

**That's it. So the countdown begins: 22hours and 14 minutes left to go! What can happen in such a small window of time? Well, stay tuned to chapter 8. Because apparently…A LOT! **