Avoiding Past And Future

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A very very grumpy Robin was swinging through the city, trying to calm his mind before he Zeta'd out to Mount Justice.

Stupid Bat. Stupid mystery drive. Stupid sedation.

Prost totul (Stupid everything)!

How dare Bruce go to Belle Rêve and not take him with? League business' his ass, the fool hadn't turned off his tracker. Dick knew full and well where he was the whole time. He even got Alfie to lie to him! That has got to count as a sin on some level!

And not only did both of them lie to him and take him as an idiot, now he won't even tell him what it was all about! The stubborn fool even went as far as to code lock the damn file history on the batcomputer just so Dick wouldn't be able to find out what he looked at.

Ce pusca mea! (what the fuck)

How was any of this fair!

Even now they were still treating him like a dumb child! "HeAd HoMe, YoU'rE dIsTrAcTeD." Dick mocked in his thoughts. No shit sherlock, they were hiding stuff from him after sedating him! Like who does that? He was already going to sleep after, there was no need for that if you asked him. Not like they bothered to ask anyway.

"We checked the cameras, Dick. There wasn't anything there."

"Are you sure you weren't just seeing things from exhaustion, young master?"

Well then they got hacked somehow! He knows what he saw! He would bet his left leg that there was some trickery involved that made them not see the literal glowing green furball. Even volunteering to take Wonder Woman's lasso for a spin wasn't enough for the adults to believe him. "Oh BuT tHe CaMeRaS" DECI CE (SO WHAT)?! They had no right to claim he was just imagining things! Câinele a fost acolo, la naiba (the dog was there, damn it)! They already have proof the câine (dog) can influence tech, was it really that far of a reach that their cameras just couldn't pick up on it?

They hadn't even gotten a chance to investigate Belle Rêve before they decided to violate his rights, so who are they to say their stupid tech was more believable than Dick's own memories. Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous! He had a missing brother and a trippy little dog to deal with but they were more concerned with his 'mental health'. What mental health? Why would his mental be healthy when his brother was in the most secured prison in the country!

UGH

Of course he wouldn't be fully paying attention! Who would when all of that was going on! It wasn't his fault he didn't see the goon sneak up on him. Batman didn't need to save him, the man chose to do that all on his own. Why was Robin being punished for another person's choices! This had to be some sort of violation of his rights, right? Surely there had to be something he could hold over Bruce's head next time.

Still halfway grumbling to himself, he reached the roof next to the alley where the Gotham City zeta tube was hidden. He looked around to see if the coast was clear when he saw Artemis walk up to it. The girl looked quite nervous and unsure of what to do. Was this her first time zeta-ing in from Gotham after her school transfer?

Ducă-se. (screw it)

Carefully he slipped down to try and scare her. Right as she least expected it he popped out from behind the broken phone booth. "Artemis?" He did his best to sound like his usual, somewhat cocky self. The gremlin in him enjoyed how the green clad heroine jumped slightly at his sudden appearance.

"Robin!" She nervously stuttered, "I-um." Robin decided to have some fun and be a bit of a menace before meeting up with the others. "Random that you are in Gotham City, instead of Star City where your uncle Green Arrow lives." Should anybody ask, he took no enjoyment in watching his teammate nervously squirm while trying to find a cover story on the fly. Of course he already knew she lived here with her mom, but she didn't know he knew so why not have some fun with it.