They meet the league! This chapter doesn't get into the family-like relationship that'll be shown in future chapters. Instead, it focuses on Sparrow and Robin kicking butt to prove their worth to the League. Review!
Superman paced the room of the watchtower quietly, as apprehensive as the group of members assembled behind him. Bruce had been out if contact for months- that was hardly unusual, though he often put a few files in the database over time to let them know he was alive, but seeing the headlines about him adopting two children and him then ignoring their calls had been worrisome...
And then he'd been asked to cover a story in the paper about Batman's apparently new sidekick, Robin. He'd been trying to contact Bruce ever since then, and when he wasn't answering he assembled the members of the league and discussed causing emergency meeting protocol and entering Batman's city to find him.
They'd declined, Wonder Woman, much to his frustration, saying Bruce would come and bring the boy with him when he was ready. That same night, however, news had broken of Batman having a second, younger sidekick had surfaced, and that was when they'd all unanimously decided to enact emergency protocol. When Bruce had informed him he'd be coming up tomorrow to explain himself, however, that had been totally unexpected...
And now there they were, waiting.
"Recognizing, Batman 02, Unrecognized Male, Authorization 447128, Unrecognized Female, Authorization 447128."
A moment later they materialized, and the leaguers were left to stare.
"Computer. Designate male Robin, designate female Sparrow." Batman ordered.
"Unrecognized male now authorized level 1 clerance, designated Robin B01. Unreconized female now authorized level 1 clerance, designated Sparrow B02."
Batman nodded, looking satisfied, and strode out of the zeta tube, the children trailing behind him.
Wonder Woman found herself staring at the girl- she was tiny, an inch or two shy of four feet, and couldn't have weighed more than forty pounds...
Green Arrow scoffed. "Really? You seriously thought it was a good idea to start playing Daddy Daycare?" he said sarcastically.
Batman smirked, turning to his children. "Drop him."
"What!? Hey!" Oliver exclaimed, as each child darted off in the opposite direction from the other, capes snapping behind them. There was a bright flash from Robin's side of the room, and when everyone's eyes readjusted a second later, they'd vanished.
"What the heck..." Oliver looked around, shocked. "I- did anyone just see that!?"
"Yeah..." Flash was looking unnerved, and Batman just smiled...
The league collectively realized his smile ws eerie, creepy, almost... And they wished he'd start scowling again.
"So they can play hide and seek." Oliver said, apparentky having a quick surge of bravery. "What does that prove?"
And then the lights in the room flickered and promptly died.
"Holy crap..." Flash muttered, and Wonder Woman and Superman exchanged glances while Dinah smirked- these kids were oretty good, to manage to hack league systems.
"Bruce, you can call them off." Superman said calmly. "We came here tot alk about the... responsibility of your decision. Not to question their capabilities."
Batman narrowed his eyes at him. "I can't 'call them off', Clark. I gave an order. And they aren't dogs, they don't follow my every order. They're capable of thought. Moreso than Queen, anyways."
"Standig here in the dark will prove nothing, Bruce..." Diana started.
And then there was an eerie laugh- a child's laugh, the girl, most likely, from the sound and pitch of it, and the sound of running feet to their right...
Everyone turned, but there was nothing there. Only darkness.
"Bats, this is getting creepy..." Flash said, looking slightly unnerved.
"Bruce, CALL THEM OFF." Oliver snarled, stringing his bow with a trick-arrow. "I get it- they're capable."
Batman just smile. A moment later, the room exploded into a puff of smoke.
It enveloped everyone, and for a moment pure pandimonium broke loose...
Flashw as running in circles, attempting to generate enough wind to clear the smoke, and Superman quickly moved to the side, pulling Dinah with him and using his X-Ray vision to see the happenings through the smoke...
He watched as, in one swift move, the boy ran at Oliver and slid under an arrow that'd blindly been shot in his general direction, sliding with his momentum carrying him the remaining few feet before his booted feet made contact with Oliver's angles, bringing the larger man down...
And the girl dropped from the ceiling, and he realized with trepidation she'd been hiding in the vents abive them. She landed directly behind Olvier, seizing his arms and forcing them behind his back, slapping cuffs onto him.
All this had gone down in the course of a few seconds, of course, and an instant later the smoke cleared, curtosy of the Flash's wind.
Green Arrow looked absolutely miserable from where he was, ankles cuffed together and hands cuffed behind his back...
"You want us to get the rest of 'em, Daddy?" the girl called Sparrow asked, looking excited.
Everyone's heart skipped a beat. Had she just called Batman- the cold, fearless crusader of Gotham- Daddy?
Batman hid his smile well from where he'd been watching. "I don't think that will be necessary, tikno chiricklo. (1)"
Sparrow beamed, however, as did Robin, at the use of the affectionate nickname...
Oliver moaned. "Alright, alright, get it- they're amazing. Now will someone please uncuff me?" Oliver spoke into thr ground, since he currently had no way to put his face uo off the ground...
"I kind of like you better like this..." Dinah said, tapping her chin and looking persive. She smiled when Oliver let out a frustrated sigh. Picking thr locks of his cuffs was going to be FAR too fun.
There were some pratical details to work out, of course, but from that day on, the league didn't question the addition of two little birds to their family of misfits.
(1) Translates to little bird in Romani, their native, gypsy language.