Tesseract Child

Justice Never Sleeps

Because justice never sleeps but five year olds on the other hand really aught to.

Robin absolutely refused to get out of his costume and was far too excited to be confined to a limousine. "You forgot a car seat. I won't break the law. I want to run back!" His things had already been piled in the trunk. Thor and Clint had dropped Robin off by Cab and hadn't legally needed a car seat on the way to the circus. The team was not particularly kid savvy.

"Oh man," complained Pepper. She knew she'd forgotten something. Thor wouldn't have known any better and who else was going to step up for him?

"It's miles!" protested Thor.

"If you're tired, you can go in the car. I've got energy too burn! I'm gonna fly home!" Robin whipped out his grapple hook and took off running cheerfully.

"I confiscated that after your adventures with Hulk," protested Thor.

"I un-confiscated it because it's asterous!" Robin yelled back happily. Grappling up to the top of a seven-story building. He yelled down "Come on Faðir Thor, let everyone else go be boring. Get turbed! Please play with me!"

"It's past your bed time! It's almost 10 o'clock!" protested Thor.

"I'm not tired!" Robin leapt through thin air onto the fire escape of a nearby building climbing higher and higher. Cheeky laughter rained down on them.

Thor shook his head and took what looked like a Mjolnir charm off the chain round his neck. It grew to full size. Thor might not have had a grapple gun but he had a mighty hammer. Thor grinned.

In a moment, he was up on the rooftop with Robin. "Well," he asked waiting.

Robin grinned and punched the air in celebration then took off running. Thor leapt after him, letting the boy set the pace.

For a time they leapt, ran, grappled and such from roof to roof. The child kept scanning his surroundings, listening, pausing from time to time to assess the route he would take. The little yellow cape fluttered behind him when he jumped, swung and ran. There was no net now, but Thor was pretty confident that he could be the child's net if it was needed. Occasionally, Robin would stop to check something on his watch. It was back on his wrist. Then Robin did something that surprised Thor. He swung out of the sky into a flying kick that knocked a gun out of a large man's hand.

"No, no, give the lady back her purse," said Robin playfully.

Robin didn't even come up to the man's waist. The burglar tried to back hand the kid. Robin sidestepped and tripped the man then danced away laughing.

The man tried to grab Robin. As he bent down for his grab, Robin flipped over his head and kicked him to the ground.

Thor was unsure if he should intervene. His tiny warrior looked like he was having fun. He stood watching, to keep an eye on things. He walked along the edge of the roof until he was over top of the gun just in case.

"You little $^&%," said the thug.

Thor jumped down, hammer in hand. "Mind you language," he corrected. "He's five."

The guy looked like he wanted to wet himself. He turned to run. Robin shot out the grapple gun at ground level and tripped him up. The thug fell breaking his nose.

"Ouch," observed Robin. "You still didn't give her back her purse. Oh, and the police station is that way." Robin pointed.

The thug shoved the purse in Robin's direction and ran towards the police station. Robin called the police on his watch to alert them and collected the woman's purse.