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CW: derogatory remarks (Wally @ Cujo, Artemis @ Danny and Cujo)


October 23


Conner stormed out of the corridor, stomping over to his room before his mind connected to the mindlink again. Sighing, he pivoted on his heel and started towards the lounge instead.

"-Zeta's acting up again. That's the second time today alone." Wally complained offhandedly, but Conner didn't care. The Zeta's been acting up all week, so has the entire system. Nothing actually broke yet, outside of the 2 short power outages a few days back, so he didn't see the point of complaining about it.

"I shall bring it up with Batman." Kaldur stated, completely devoid of emotion. It didn't feel too out of the ordinary however. The Atlantean had always been more on the reserved side. If he held a bit less emotion in his tone than usual, it wasn't Conner who would say anything about it.

Artemis audibly rolled her eyes, the gesture being conveyed in feeling rather than visual. "As if he isn't the reason it broke in the first place." Her tone held more bite than the others, more annoyed than concerned for the tech acting up. He couldn't blame her. Designation codes had been broken and acting off ever since the last time they were all together. It wasn't hard to guess Batman was involved in it.

He wouldn't have cared much, if it hadn't meant they had false or even doubled announcements on the regular. He lost count on the amount of times he heard either M'gann's or his own code announced as they were nowhere near the Zeta, let alone the plethora of others who got called out without ever being there. It wasn't a surprise when nobody reacted to a string of 4 odd and broken callsigns.

"Is that why Robin hasn't been back yet? It's been a week." M'gann wondered sadly, which just made Conner even angrier. She had been so worried about everybody, forced into training barely a day after that whole mess happened, and even now she was still worrying more about the brats who caused so many issues instead of herself. And of course, she'll never actually voice that the pressure is too much. She was too caring to do so, he knew that well enough. But she can't hide her exhaustion, mental and physical, from him. Never him.

He was going to answer, call out how they aren't their problem, when he heard Wolf growling. Everybody was in the lounge, Canary was still in the office, so what, or rather who, was Wolf growling at?

"Honestly, and you wonder why I prefer cats."

A woman scoffed, but he didn't recognize the voice. Not a second later, he heard the door to Canary's office open and the woman walking towards it. He could hear two sets of footsteps. One light with a soft click to them, probably the woman he heard. The other was a heavier set one, still light but with gear weighing it down.

What was Batman doing here?

And if Batman and the woman were here to talk with Canary, who was Wolf still growling at? "What's gotten into you?!" A voice he knew all too well grunted. Robin sounded like he was struggling against something, probably Wolf considering the mutant seemed anything but happy to see him again. He couldn't say the feeling wasn't mutual.

With his signature scowl set in, Conner barged right through the lounge and headed straight for the training room where he heard the commotion come from.

"Conner?"

"Your time has not yet finished my friend."

Conner ignored them both, disregarding the confused glances M'gann and Kaldur shared as they eventually fell in a staggered step behind him. He could feel the mental prodding for answers, but his mind could only focus on Wolf and the lightheaded buzz in the back of his head. The last time Wolf acted off, it didn't mean anything good. And he was willing to bet it had everything to do with Robin being back.

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