Unkind Fate

Ok so I was reading some of the many other stories about what happened after the episode Misplaced and one of the stories gave me the idea of what would happen if Robin had put on the helmet instead of Zatanna? I'm really glad it didn't end up like this, but I had to write it to get it off my mind. Hope you enjoy it.

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Robin woke up and held his chest where he got hit as he sat up. He looked around and saw Wally nowhere in sight, Kaldur being hit by some kind of beam, M'gann talking with Billy, and Zatanna holding the helmet of fate.

He stood up, ignoring the pain, and ran over to Zatanna.

"Zee, wait!" he yelled, stopping her from putting the helmet on.

Zatanna looked over and saw him coming. When he finally made it to her, he pushed her arm down a little to make sure she didn't put the helmet on. "Robin, we need him to win this battle."

"Maybe, but whoever puts the helmet on has a chance of never taking it off again." He wasn't with the others when Wally and Kadur put the helmet on, but he heard both of their stories afterwards and he didn't want that to happen to her.

"We have to chance it," she said as she raised it to put it on.

Robin pushed her arm back down. "I know, but you can't do it."

Zatanna looked at him a little confused. "Why not? We need his help."

Robin wasn't quite sure how to answer her. There was no real reason why she couldn't. "Because, I'm more experienced. I'll do it," he said as he took the helmet from her.

He raised it above his head and started to put it on. He was scared, but he knew he had to do it. The last thing he heard before he placed the helmet on his head was Wally and Kaldur shouting "No!" "Don't do it!" but it was to late to turn back now.

He transformed into Dr. Fate and flew off to join the fight. M'gann and Billy watched the whole thing when they saw Robin run over to Zatanna. "Billy, tell Batman," M'gann said when she turned back to him.

"Right," he said the turned away from her a little. "Sha-zam!"

Marvel arrived back in the world of adults and immediately went toward Batman, who was just now breaking free of the vines that held him to the tree and threw an exploding batarang at the tree. "Batman! Batman!" Marvel yelled as he came up to him.

"What is it, Marvel, we don't have time to chat," Batman said glaring at the man.

"Robin's become Dr. Fate!"

Batman's eyes went wide with fear. 'Fate will never let him go.' He looked away from Marvel for a second then looked back up with his usual fighting look - angered. "There's nothing we can do now. Focus on the fight," he said then ran off to continue the fight.

Marvel watched as Batman ran off and threw a few more batarangs then looked down in thought. "I got it," he said then flew up in the air asking for speed and strength then started spinning quickly and dove into the ground.

Back in the world of kids, Robin, AKA Dr. Fate, was fighting with Klarion, shooting beams toward the force shield trying to weaken it while Klarion threw magic balls toward him. Suddenly, Fate disappeared the reappeared just as fast causing Robin to gasp a little.

"Ha, when the worlds split, the helmet split too," Klarion yelled happily. Fate disappeared and reappeared again. "you're not all here, Nabu, and you're losing hold of that poor, soon to be dead boy." He smiled then said softer, "He sacrificed himself for nothing."