Batman didn't believe their story from the second he heard it.

The future team may be able to play with everyone else's minds, but Batman is a master of playing with minds. He knew there was another reason, a completely different reason, for the future team's arrival in the past. Albeit he was a bit surprised with learning the true parentage of the heroes, he knew they were playing the League and the Team. It's just the matter of why that got on his nerves. There was an alternative reason, and he will find it.

As of right now, he'll play their game.

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'So what is the mission exactly?' asked Dawn. Everyone looked towards Damian and Mar'i, the former pulling up his holographic computer and quickly typing, pulled up a file.

'The mission is this. Our Light has contacted this era's Light and has given them valuable information about the future. This also includes the information our era's Light have obtained from the Watchtower on the attack they orchestrated a few days prior to our departure.' Damian let that bit of information sink in as worried looks formed on the young heroes' faces. 'We have to stop this era's Light from further contacting their future selves and destroy the information they have received. Then we have to reverse the effects of the post-Reach apocalyptic future that is unraveling,' Damian concluded. 'Any questions?'

'How do we find this era's Light? According to the Watchtower's databases, aren't they currently temporarily disbanded in this era?' asked Irey.

'Yes, but we also have information on where they could be as of now and on their current conditions,' Mar'i replied.

'Isn't the post-Reach apocalyptic future the ones responsible for the attack in three days?' asked Luke.

'Yes,' said Damian. 'Since that future is becoming nonexistent, the Reach is going to send in soldiers to this timeline to try and conquer it.'

'We should tell Bart about the Reach, he may be of help,' suggested Lian.

'We'll see if we can trust him or not.' This caused an outburst of opinions that burst into his head. Immediately everyone regretted it. Damian glared at everyone before explaining: 'We don't know if he is going to be manipulated by Fa-Batman, to try to get more information out of us.'

'What if we can't do it?' said Don hesitantly. 'What if we need backup? Things may get out of hand' Everyone looked at her and realized that she was right.

'Like I told the League, the device we have can contact the future or the past. If, and only if, we need backup, Zach would cast the spell and I would hook it up to a computer and contact our parents' Damian stated.

'No more questions?' asked Mar'i. 'Good. Tonight, we'll pretend to go to sleep. Once the League is gone, Robin will hack into the system and loop the cameras. Once given the signal, we'll make our exit through the Zeta. Robin will go last so he has time to wipe the Zeta's memory. Then we'll go to our destination from there, clear?' There was a chorus of nods and yeses from the group.

'Exactly where are we going' asked Colin.

'Russia,' replied Mar'i.

(Line Break)

Night fell aboard the Watchtower and during that time, the future team prepared for their mission.

"Captain Atom is supposed to be on monitor duty tonight," he told Mar'i.

"That makes things a bit trickier," she said.

"I can always hack into the system."

"I know you can."

Robin, satisfied with her answer, turned back to his listening devices. He cleverly disguised many small microphones throughout the Watchtower and was currently listening in on many conversations. After doing this for the majority of the morning, he stole the contents of one of Drake's belts and help Speedy and Red Arrow raid Green Arrow's stash of arrows. Everyone was doing their own thing, polishing up on their skills and powers and finding out more info about the current status of the past. Eventually, early afternoon came and the future kids decided on taking some downtime before their mission. That was until Black Canary came in.

"Kids, since you guys aren't doing anything right now, I hope you can join me in training with the Team," she said, making it clear that it was not up for discussion.

"Um, I thought you don't train the team personally anymore," said Iris. "The senior members of the Team are supposed to do that."

"Yes, but Nightwing asked that I train the young members of the team while the senior members of the Team, along with Guardian, Bumblebee, Zatanna, Rockett, and a few other leaguers help Artemis with her newfound pregnancy" she replied. "Come, I'll show you the way."

"Tell her we send our congratulations," Irey replied."Come, I'll show you the way."

"Will do," Canary said. "Come, I'll show you the way."

The team got up from their respective places in the rec-room and followed Black Canary to the training area. There they were met with the younger Team, their young parents, aunts, uncles, and mentors.

"Team, these time-traveling kids of ours are going to join us today. That said, start stretching, in five minutes we start."

The kids, both past and future, started stretching. Soon five minutes was up and Black Canary started instructing.

"So what were you working on in the future?" Canary asked.

"We were in a sword unit," replied Luke.

"Explain," Canary replied, a bit curiously.

"Batman didn't want Robin to accidently chop someone's head off," said Scarlet, earning stares from her teammates. Scarlet doesn't talk much.

"What?" past Robin exclaimed.

"Robin likes fighting with a sword," explained Olivia. "It's his specialty. We don't want him accidently killing someone on the Team. Or anyone for that matter." She gave a look towards Robin, who crossed his arms in defiance.

"Tsk."

There was a lengthy pause as the past heroes absorbed all that information. Unbeknownst to both teams, Batman and most of the Justice League were watching the live camera feed from the training room in the monitor room. Batman was sitting in the only chair available while the other heroes stood behind him or were leaning against the walls. He narrowed his eyes when Olivia revealed that Robin was a master swordsman.

"I wonder who taught the kid," said Hal. He gave a pointed look towards Batman.

"My protojés are not masters of lethal weapons if that was what you were suggesting," Batman said, turning around to face Hal, giving him a batglare.

"I wasn't suggesting anything," Hal said in defense, holding his hands up in surrender. They turned back to the camera feed.

"Do you wish to teach us something?" Black Canary said towards Robin.

"I am banned from teaching anything. My methods are quote 'close to torture' as Green Lantern would say," The future team paled at the thought of Robin's teaching methods.

"What did you make them do?" past Robin asked.

"Nothing much compared to what I got with mo-" he stopped before finishing his last word, looking at his feet as if ashamed of himself. His demeanor told everyone that he didn't want to talk about it. Most of his past teammates gave him pitying looks, while Mar'i placed a hand on his shoulder in order to comfort him.

"Oh. Okay." Black Canary then started her session. She made a mental note to watch Robin closely.

Back in the monitor room, the Justice League was awestruck by this Son of Batman. Some wondered what kind of training he went through, others were mad that he subjected others like he was subjected, while all in all, feeling bad for the kid for not knowing what else to do.

Batman started to worry about this future son of his. He wondered if he could've prevented what happened to him. He felt a strange paternal connection with him, maybe because he was his biological son. However, it only fueled his curiousity at finding out more about these heroes.