6 Years Old

Superboy stood at the large window of the Watch Tower staring down at the Earth which was spinning slowly. He had been left on the tower with Batman Beyond as their parents went to save the world again along with Nightwing who was now part of the Justice League along with Oracle. Blue Jay was now the leader of Young Justice and Red Robin was the leader of a new group with Ruby Robin called the Teen Titans who had their own HQ, Robin and Batboy were also a part of Young Justice.

Eagle was in charge of Gotham along with Falcon that night so Superboy was on his own. Superboy sighed and turned away from the window only to jump half a mile in the air when he noticed Batman Beyond was stood behind him. 'What?' Superboy asked glaring at his little brother who just stared back.

'Superboy!' two voices called out and Superboy jumped as he was tackled, almost, by two energetic bodies.

'Green Hawk! Green Lantern!' Superboy yelled smiling widely as he hugged his friends. 'I didn't know you guys where coming here today!' he said happily.

'We weren't but when mum heard that you where here on your own with Green Arrow and Batman Beyond so she called Green's dad and here we are,' Green Hawk explained and Green Lantern nodded. 'Than she called Aquaman and he's bringing up Aquaboy up as well and Red Arrow he's bringing up Arrow Cat to,' she added and Superboy nodded.

Sure enough as soon as she finished saying that Red Arrow walked in with Arrow Cat and Aquaman with Aquaboy who both wriggled down and ran over to Batman Beyond and started playing happily.

Superboy was lounging in the nursery talking and playing when a commotion was heard from the transport deck, of course only Superboy could hear it. 'What's up Kon?' Green Lantern asked looking at his friend with his head cocked to the side.

'Something's going on,' he replied and got up before running to the transport deck with his two friends following him. What they saw was not something Superboy ever wanted to see again. Wonder Woman was knelt on the floor with Batman's head in her lap and Superman was trying to staunch the blood that was flowing from the numerous wounds he had all over his body.

'He's hemorrhaging!' Superman yelled out as Batman's body began to shake and he started choking with blood running down his chin, both Superman and Wonder Woman had tears running down their faces as Flash grabbed him and ran to the Medical Wing with Martian Manhunter following.

'Dada? Mama?' Superboy whimpered getting the attention of two of his parents, the boy as pale and had tears running down his face he was also breathing very fast and he was shaking. Green Hawk and Green Lantern weren't much better.

'Conner, baby come here,' Wonder Woman called and Superboy ran into her arms sobbing.

'What happened?' he asked between sobs.

'We don't know, we lost sight of him in the battle, the next thing we knew we found him bloody and barely breathing on the edge of the battle,' Wonder Woman replied in a whisper. Hawkwoman and Green Lantern (Hal) took their children away and Superman washed his hands and changed in Superspeed before grabbing Batman Beyond and contacting the rest of the Batfamily as they paced outside the operating theatre where Batman was being operated on by Martian Manhunter and Flash.

Wonder Woman sang to Superboy and stroked his hair trying to calm the boy down, Batman Beyond didn't really understand and was sitting on the floor close by playing with his toys as Superman paced back and forth in distress and he kept looking at his hands before shaking his head and pacing again. It seemed to take forever for the rest of the Batfamily to arrive and all looked like they had been crying. 'How is he?' Nightwing asked in a croaky voice.

'We don't know he's still being operated on,' Superman replied as he pulled Damian and Aaron into a hug, both allowed it as they stared at the door that Superman was pacing in-front of.

'How did it happen?' Eagle asked looking at the door.

'We do not know,' Wonder Woman replied before going back to singing to Superboy who was still pale and shaking but his tears had long since dried up and instead his eyes looked blank and dull, which concerned both parents and the older siblings.

After three hours Martian Manhunter finally left the room and the family all looked at him with bated breath. 'He is stable but in a very bad way. We lost him twice on the operating table and are concerned that he may not make it through the night. If he does he should make a full, if slow, recovery,' the Martian replied as Flash zoomed from the room down the hall into another, more clean, room where they placed Batman who was now only in his cowl and a pair of sterile hospital pants. He was covered in cut bruises, wires and bandages. The bat had a breathing tube down his throat and a heart monitor connected to him along with other machines which made the normal busy bat look small and. . . well dead.

Superboy refused to leave at any time, except for using the bathroom and the rest of the family followed his example, but they did leave for food and to wash and such but they all slept in the room.

It had been three days and Batman was still showing no signs of waking up. Conner was in his Batman pyjamas with his Superman slippers as he watched his father with his Superboy plushie clutched in his hands. 'Please wake up papa we need you. Dada has started to withdraw in on himself and is getting slightly violent when fighting the bad guys and we're afraid that he might tip over the edge if you don't wake soon, mama is always arguing with dada now and I think she might move back to Themyscira soon. Please wake up papa we all need you, Dick is struggling being Batman and everyone is arguing with each other and hurtful things have been said by all. Even Terry had realised something is wrong and wont let mama and dada out of his sight,' Conner whispered tears falling down his cheeks slowly as he stared at his papa. The six year old took Batman's hand in his and it felt cold and dead. Conner continued talking to Batman when he chocked on a sob and laid his head on his papa's chest just listening to the heart beat under his ear. 'Please wake up, please,' the little boy sobbed and that was when he felt it. The hand the boy was holding contracted and stayed like it. Conner's head shot up and saw his papa's eyes opening slightly. 'Papa!' the little boy screamed in glee, of course Superman heard his sons scream and thought the worst so bashed into the room with the Batfamily and Wonder Woman following after him only to freeze when they saw Conner crying and hugging Batman who was hugging back.

Batman had returned to the Batfamily once again, he was of course to stubborn to die just yet.