Chapter Eight: "Back to School"

Mount Justice

09:34 EST, December 3

"Recognized: Arrowette, B-55. Impulse, B-27. Robin, B-22. Batgirl, B-32. Tigress, A-05."

The zeta tube hummed offline as the junior heroes walked into the Cave. Well, sped in, in Bart's case.

"IT'S SATURDAY!" Bart yelled.

Suzanne heard Conner groan in anguish from his bedroom.

"So you guys go out for a day off every Saturday?" Suzanne asked Robin as the crimson speedster sped around the Cave waking everybody up.

"No." Robin said.

Helena elbowed him.

"Ow!" Robin exclaimed, rubbing his shoulder.

"Not every Saturday," Helena said. "But pretty much."

Wayne's daughter was dressed in black skinny jeans, a bright orange tank-top, black leather jacket and dark sunglasses, her brown hair was tied back in a ponytail and her signature smirk was plastered on her face. Suzanne was beginning to wonder if it wasn't permanently attatched.

"!"

Robin raised an eyebrow. "Bart. Slower." he said.

"Good luck." Suzanne muttered.

Bart asked his previous questions in a slower voice.

"We're not going to see a movie, we're going for a day on the town. Gotham City. I don't know where we're going to eat, no. I won't exclude anyone from coming. Not even Superboy or Miss Martian." Robin said.

Suzanne raised an eyebrow. Stephanie smirked and ruffled Bart's hair. "Nice try little dude." she said.

"Stop doing that!" Bart exclaimed. "Im sixteen for heaven's sake! I'm too old-"

"But you're so cute..." Stephanie said, grinning.

Bart smiled and Robin frowned.

"Cheer up, detective." Bart said. "I can't help it your girlfriend's attracted to me."

"Now wait just a minute..." Stephanie said.

Suzanne laughed. This team could be so...comedic sometimes.

The blonde archer was dressed in a winter parka, purple hat, dark jeans, and snow boots. Her purple gloves were off for the moment, but they would inevitably be back on by the time the heroes were back in the snow of Gotham City.

"So who all is coming?" she asked.

"Impulse, Tigress, Supergirl, me, and Stargirl." Robin replied.

Suzanne nodded.

Gotham City

10:01 EST, December 3,

"Umm... What are we doing at a restaurant?" Bart asked.

Robin glanced at Helena before leaning in.

"I don't see the reason to conceal our identities anymore considering he is gone." he said. Everyone grasped who 'he' was.

Bart raised an eyebrow.

Robin slowly pulled off his dark glasses and Kara gasped.

"You're Tim Drake?" Suzanne asked. "Then that means Batman is-"

"Is Dick Grayson." Robin said. "The original Robin. But the original Batman was Bruce Wayne."

"So that's why you somehow kept avoiding the question." Suzanne said, looking at Helena.

She shrugged. "I wasn't allowed to tell." she said. "And I don't think Tim was either."

Tim smiled sheepishly. At that moment, a large figure crashed in the streets of Gotham. Clothes in all black with two red eyes he looked around. Spotting the group of teenagers, he fired laser beams from his eyes.

"Move!" Robin yelled, tackling Helena out of the way as the rest dove for cover.

The beam cut right through everything in it's way; glass, steel, wood, plastic, none of it survived.

"What is that?" Helena asked, ducking behind a wall.

"Dunno." Robin said. "Whatever it is, we've got to stop it."

He pulled out his utility belt and strapped it over his shoulders. He replaced his glasses with his domino mask. "Get dressed, now. I'll hold him off."

"Robin-!" Helena called, but the Boy Wonder was gone.

"I'll help him." Bart said. He became a blur before zooming off in costume.

The three women looked at each other before quickly taking off their jackets and jeans to reveal their hero outfits. All except Suzanne.

"I didn't bring my outfit or a mask!" she exclaimed. "Just my bow and arrows!"

"Here!" Helena said, tossing Suzanne a mask that was an almost exact copy of her original one. "I took the liberty of making a spare in case you were ever at the manor and needed one."

"Uhh... Thanks?"

Tigress winked, slid on her domino mask and rushed out of the building with Stargirl. Supergirl was about to follow, but Suzanne caught her hand.

"I need a high rooftop in the immediate vicinity." she said.

Kara grinned.

Tigress leaped at the villain, landing a kick to his stomach which knocked him back. She landed on her feet breathing heavily as the man stood up. He pulled something from his belt.

"Grenade!" Helena yelled.

Robin threw a Birdarang, but the man grabbed it and tossed it to the side. He pulled the pin from the grenade and tossed it at a rooftop.

"Arrowette!" Supergirl yelled. The blonde rolled to the side and flattened as shrapnel sliced her jacket.

"Okay, buddy." Impulse said, adjusting his goggles and running at the villain. "You're going down."

The man stared at Bart and reacted in time to his movements. His super-speed movements. He grabbed Bart by the throat and hoisted him in the air. An arrow struck his hand he dropped the speedster.

"What in-"

"Amazo." Robin said, ejecting his bow-staff and activating the electrical charge. "I read the report on the original teams encounter with him. He can impersonate any superpower he comes across. And he's already fought two thirds of the Justice League."

Robin watched as Arrowette had to dodge her arrows which Amazo was throwing back at her.

"Titans," Robin said. "Go!"

Stargirl and Supergirl flew up in the air shooting beams of pure energy at the man. Robin and Tigress leaped, feet prepared for a kick to the stomach and the jaw. Impulse sped around the man catching anything he threw at the heroes. Arrowette continued shooting her expert arrows.

The 'Amazo' grinned and made his move. He grabbed Bart at super speed and tossed him to the side. He blocked the energy beams from the floating girls and knocked them out of the sky with a blast to his own. He grabbed Tigress and threw her into Robin. Lastly, he flew into the air and would've shot Arrowette with his heat vision had Huntress not run, leapt over her apprentice, and tackled the man to the ground.

"Robin!" she yelled, pinning the man to the ground. "Status!"

"Look out!" the Boy Wonder yelled. "That's Amaz-"

Huntress flew in the air from a super-punch. Arrowette shot a grapple arrow toward the Leaguer and she caught it, swinging onto the road.

"Form up!" Huntress yelled.

"No need." the man spoke in a deep gravelly voice. "I've gotten what I came for."

And with that, he was gone.

"What- was that thing?" Tigress asked, hauling herself up.

"Whatever it was," Huntress said. "It wasn't Amazo."

"Recognized: Huntress, 24. Arrowette, B-55. Robin, B-22. Batgirl, 39. Supergirl, A-50. Stargirl, B-53. Impulse, B-31." The tired and battered heroes walked into the Cave to see Batman waiting for them.

"Report." He said gruffly.

"Something attacked us in Gotham City." Suzanne started.

"Obvious." Batman said.

"It had the powers of Amazo, but wasn't." Artemis said.

"Here," Robin said, pulling off his mask and handing it to the Dark Knight. "Footage and audio is in there."

"When-"

"I told them ten seconds before that guy showed up." Robin replied.

Batman nodded in a "We'll talk about this later" kind of way before pulling up the footage.

"Dude!" Bart exclaimed. "I'm getting motion sick!"

"Sorry, next time I'll fight for my life and hold the camera steady." Robin said.

The zeta tubes hummed to life again. "Recognized: Bargirl, 39." Stephanie walked into the cave in full uniform. She stopped when she saw the battered heroes.

"Some movie." she said.

AN: The Arrowette Series will not be postponed because of the lighter attitude of this series. Only Red Revenge will be postponed. Thank you.