Yo. If I owned Young Justice, Museum Heist would be canon.

Monday, January 1, 2011, 13:09

The four heroes were walking along the Central City streets, various people pointing to them and gasping. Kid Flash was talking aimlessly, pointing out random places to Superboy and Ms. Manhunter, who were nodding politely. Robin was on his phone, probably hacking governments again.

Iris West-Allen was doing a live shoot on the effect the snow was having on crime and how it was at a record low, when she heard someone gasp and point out the four young heroes. She looked over to see them wandering the streets, the youngest messing around with a phone as Kid Flash pointed out various locations to the other two, recognizable by the goggles on the speedster, green skin on the martian, and s-shield jacket on the Kryptonian.

Motioning to her cameraman Joe, she had him pan over to the heroes as she made her way over to them, startling the three older ones, while Robin continued looking at his phone.

"Excuse me, I was just wondering if I could ask a few questions?" The reporter asked, feeling slightly nervous even though one of the heroes was her nephew. The three metas looked a little unsure, while Robin looked up at her through his dark shades.

"Sure. Ask away," he replied, making the other three look at him, incredulities written on their faces.

"Um, okay. So, Robin, why have you not been seen crime fighting since mid-November?" Iris asked, curious. Wally had been tense and upset since he had gone missing, and the worried aunt wondered why.

"Well, it started with going after Scarecrow. Then I got captured. Then torture, followed by having my butt saved by Batgirl and a three-week medical coma. That answer your question enough?" The Boy Wonder replied, looking impassive.

"Yes, mostly. Who is this Batgirl?" Iris asked.

"A new girl who popped up in Gotham while I was… away and Artemis was out of commission with a broken leg," he answered.

"Okay. So, has there been any word yet from any of the League? And any luck locating other heroes?" Iris was still worried about her husband.

"Nope. We'll let you know if there is," Kid Flash answered the question for Robin.

"Okay. I believe that's all. I'll let you go back to whatever it was you were doing," the reporter replied, turning away.

"That would've been hacking the Pentagon," Kid Flash replied, nudging Robin.

"Hey!" The younger replied. "That was confidential. And it wasn't the Pentagon, it was the FBI." He muttered the last part, earning him some looks.

"Hackers," the speedster sighed in mock disappointment. "They can't stop hacking stuff."

M'gann giggled, while Conner just stared. He was surrounded by weird people. The bystanders just shrugged, accepting the enigma that was their young heroes. A different random bystander, though, suddenly felt a whole load of crap about to descend on him… He was an FBI, and had just finished recoding the FBI's database. His boss was going to kill him, very painfully, then bring him back to life and kill him again.

"How about we stop for food?" Robin suggested, wanting to get people to stop staring at him.

"Sounds good," Kid Flash replied, grinning. "How about McDonalds?"

"No," the hacker and the clone both growled at the same time.

"Sheesh. Where to, then?" The redhead felt squished.

"Pizza," Conner replied, then began walking in a random direction. Sure enough, there was a small local pizza place there, and the four heroes walked in, still receiving stares.

Robin walked up to the counter, putting away his phone it his laptop case. "Hello!" He chirped, smiling, and the lady at the counter's eyes bugged out of her head when she saw them.

"Wh-what can I get you?" She asked.

"One small cheese, a medium cowboy, a small vegan, and three large pepperoni's, please," Robin replied while his Teammates just stared at him. How had he known their favorite types of pizza?

"Okay, I'll have them right up. Just take a seat wherever, and I'll come get you when they're ready!" She replied, nervously stroking her blonde hair while giving their order to the cook.

"Thanks Arianna!" The Boy Wonder replied.

"How do you know my name?" She asked, slightly freaked out.

"Nametag," Robin replied, before following his friends to sit at the counter.

"Oh," Arianna murmured, blinking brown eyes while sending the other lady at the counter, the brunette Tara, to give the couple in the corner their pizza. She couldn't help but listening in on the heroes' conversation, giggling when Superboy growled out 'I hate monkeys' in response to Robin's quip about everyone in this room being related to monkeys. When the four teens' pizzas were ready, she grabbed them and carried them over two at a time, watching as Kid Flash ate with gusto, Robin and Ms. Manhunter eating theirs while chatting, and Superboy eating while staring at Arianna. She felt extremely self-conscious until…

"You're pretty. Whoever said you weren't was blind," the clone told her, before proceeding to turn full attention to his gaping friends and striking up a conversation with them. When they left, Arianna was still buzzing in joy.

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"Wow Supes. You really made her day!" Robin exclaimed as the four headed towards the nearest zeta platform.

"I was just being nice," Superboy muttered, blushing.

"I don't care. That was amazing what you did," M'gann replied, wrapping her arms around him in a hug.

"Thanks," he murmured as they stepped into the old bathroom-turned-zeta-platform.

Recognized: Robin B01 Kid Flash B03 Superboy B04 Ms. Manhunter B05

The Team left at the Cave was waiting impatiently when the four vanishers came back.

"Why did you all leave?" Kaldur asked, eyes narrowed.

"It got boring watching you fight," Wally replied, smirking.

"Well, then maybe instead of just leaving you could have shut us up," Roy growled.

"Hey, we did some good stuff out there!" Robin protested. Kaldur felt unsure. Robin was still young, but the last time the Atlantian had tried to keep him from activity, it had ended in disasters- heavy on the dis.

"I'm sure you did. Now, since you've been gone for a month and a half, Robin, I'm sure that no one will mind if you stay that night at the Cave," Dinah interjected.

"Uh… Okay?" Robin replied, feeling slightly like a little kid.

"I'll be staying at the cave too," Roy added. He had a sixth sense for when one of his bros needed him, and damn, Robin needed his bros.

"Me too," Wally quickly followed Roy's suit, causing the entire Team to just stare. "What? Can't I stay with my bros? Look, I'll tell my parents right now, see?" Wally quickly pulled out his phone, beginning to text his Aunt Iris, who he had been staying with a lot at his mom's urging- his dad was getting more violent, and Mary West wanted to protect her son.

"Fine," Dinah sighed. "Now those of you not staying at the Cave, get out and spend some time with your families."

"Yes ma'am," Virgil said, quickly scurrying to the zeta tubes.

Recognized: Static B10

"Well, c'mon Batgirl. If Dinah has told us we need to go, we need to go," Artemis muttered and the two female Gotham heroes took their leave.

Recognized: Artemis B07 Batgirl B11

"I better be going too. I have a show I need to get to," Zatanna smiled, slipping away.

Recognized: Zatanna B09

"Robin. Kaldur. You two are coming with me. The rest of you, entertain yourselves," Dinah ordered, stalking off towards the therapy room with the two leaders of the Team in tow.

Okay, in response "Mark in Orlando"'s review, this is not BirdFlash.

I will repeat it, in case you didn't get it. This is not BirdFlash.

I have nothing against the pairing. Heck, it's one of my OTP's! But it just wouldn't work out. And Wally might get together with Arty for a bit, this will be as much like real life as I can get it, so there will be breakups and you should probably reread the prologue if you think that Spitfire will be the final pairing Artemis will be in in this story.

"Thought unrequited love" there, 'kay? Even if Dick just thinks his love for Arty is unrequited, that's one thing he's wrong with there. And Arty thinks her love for him is unrequited too.

And as for how long this thing will be, I'm thinking probably at least seventy chapters? This thing is gonna be a freaking novel, peeps.

Kitte out.