DISCONTINUED - Secret Twins

Failsafe part 1

Haley's Circus

"My head." Danni groaned, rubbing her head. She blinked the fuzzy-ness away and looked around. She was laying in front of a big tent. A circus tent to be exact. Though this wasn't the all familiar tent were she lost her parents. This was a much... younger circus. There weren't as much performer wagons as 4 years ago. There weren't as much tents either. This circus had the main tent and 3 side tents, 2 are missing. By the looks of everything, the circus was planned to preform tomorrow.

Slowly getting us, she kept a watchful eye on everything. She tried to send out some clones to scout out the aria, but suddenly grew weak when not even half a clone was formed.

Absorbing the clone back, she decided to spare as much energy as possible. Slowly she started walking towards the only lit side tent. Upon closer inspection, she started to slowly recognize that specific tent. It's the one that was usually used for pregnant animals, to give them some privacy, away from the father of the young and the others animals.

She silently slipped inside the tent and immediately stopped dead in her tracks. (No pun intended) Right in front of her stood one of the elephants. Titano to be specific. Well, not exactly. Titano is just a stage name. This is Hatty, she liked to wear hats, thus her name. The other elephant, who was Titano before Hatty, Banga, died a few weeks before his offspring was born. Resulting in Hatty taking on the name and act of Titano once she recovered from her pregnancy.

Though now, Hatty hadn't delivered the young yet. And not soon after this discovery, Hatty began to go in delivery. Danni quickly and quietly left again to give Hatty some privacy.

A few hours later, the sun had come up. But that wasn't the thing that woke her. It was the sound of people. People coming closer. 2 little people by the sound of it. Suddenly a 2 year old looking boy appeared seemingly out of nowhere. He was a little on the short side, with raven black hair and all too familiar sapphire eyes.

Dick.

Seeing him again at this age made her smile a bit. Things were so perfect back then. Though they occasionally got bored a little, they were always allowed to burn that boredom energy off on the trapezes, with a safety net and somebody watching then of course. But somewhere around this time, that changed.

Danni was snapped out of her thoughts by little Dick yelling to somebody she never thought she'd see again.

"Mamă, tată, Danni! Hai, grăbește-te! Hatty este singur acolo! Sau poate nu! Nu știu , speram afla! (Mom, dad, Danni! Come on, hurry up! Hatty is there alone! Or maybe not! I don't know, so let's find out!)" He whisper-yelled at his, very much alive, family. Little Danni was practically shaking from excitement. She looked up at her mom, who was holding her hand. Mari and John shared a look and chuckled a little. Mari let go of little Danni's hand, and the little girl raced off to catch up with her equally exited brother, giggling all the way. Little Dick took off again before little Danni could reach him, now both running to the tent.Teen Danni watched little her and her brother gasp as they entered the tent and quickly cover each other's mouth before they squeaked. She watched her, very much alive, parents cringe a bit at the pitch of the squeak, but soon began chuckling at their kids' antics and make their way over to the tent as well.Having heard their squeak as well, teen Danni wondered how they NOT woke up the entire circus.Following her family, teen Danni walked back into the tent and hid behind a crate.The mini-version of the twins were jumping and giggling from excitement. Both staring at the scene and whispering to each other. The elder Graysons were watching the scene as well, though they sometimes glanced at their offspring to check that they haven't died of overexcitement."Looks like we have 2 new members of this family. I wonder what we're going to name them." Mr. Haley said, coming from right next to teen Danni. Said Danni jumped a bit, not having heard the man enter, and was confused as to why he didn't see her. Just then she noticed the extra weight around her neck. A strange looking pendant was there. The same Clockwork put there, must be why nobody can see her. Clockwork! He must be the reason she's here, now, whatever. Guess the old Stopwatch isn't as crazy as she thought with all that 'master of time' stuff.The little twins turned around at the 'name' thingy and got an even bigger smile on their faces, making everybody worry that their heads might split in two if it got any bigger. "Can we name them?!" They whisper-yelled in unison.Mr. Haley chucked and smiled softly. "You two are twin, so I think that it's appropriate for you to name these two. But first, we have to check the gender to make the name fit them better."A few moments later, the vet came to check on the little elephant twins. She smiled and looked at little Dick and Danni. "You two are twins, right?" She asked, to which they nodded. "Well, it looks like you two rubbed off on them. It's a boy and a girl. Both perfectly healthy."The little twins dropped to their knees and threw their fists in the air, silently cheering. The adults in the tent laughed at the two as they began to do a little happy dance while still on their knees with their fists in the air. It looked as adorable as it was funny. The vet was the first to calm down enough at least talk. "So, what are their names?"Little Danni looked at Little Dick and that head splitting smile was back on their faces. "The girls name is Zikita." Little Dick announced proudly. "And the boy's name is Peanut." Little Danni added.Teen Danni smiled a little at the memory. They were so perfect back then. They had their parents, Zikita and Peanut to play with, got to play and practice on the trapezes when they wanted. Everything they wanted. But that all fell apart when their parents died. If the Fentons hadn't filled in the adoption papers before Bruce could have, she'd been with her brother, fighting crime and being a family with Bruce. She would never have died, been abandoned and teamed up with the Joker if they hadn't done that. But what was done, is done. Now, there's no turning back.After that thought, everything around her began to blur and slowly fade, a new area taking its place.PresentSPACE A large red and black space ship was headed towards earth, already having passed the moon. Green Lanterns Hal and John flew up to the ship, Batman in the Batplane following them close behind."Deploying camera sensors." Batman said, slowing the speed of the plane to a stop and pushing a few buttons, releasing 2 cameras watching the scene.The GLs few up close to the ship. "Attention. You have entered the boundaries of Earth space. Disengage all weapons and engines. This is your final warning." John Stewart said, his voice having an echo.The spacecraft reacted with powering up a weapon of unknown power and fired at the Green Lanterns. Hal and John put a shield around themselves just in time, though it didn't last long. The shield shattered, exposing them to the beam. The last you could see of both GLs were their skeletons, before those too disappeared. Batman began his advance on the ship while activating the hatch in the belly of the plane. "Code red. Full offensive deploy." He ordered and Martian Manhunter, Captain Atom, Superman and Captain Marvel flew out.The alien ship attacked again, the beam dividing in 2. The heroes split, MM and Superman going to one side, the Captains going to the other. Batman flew higher to dodge the beam.Not a second after splitting, Manhunter and Superman got hit by the beam. Both disappearing the same way as the as Hal and John did.The Captains were hit next.The aliens fired again, hitting the Batplane. But not before Batman could eject himself out of it.A smaller alien ship flew closer to Batman's pod and fired, destroying the pod and killing the Dark Knight. Mount JusticeThe transmission ended and an incoming call from Zatara popped up."Tornado, did you-" Zatara said, or at least tried to say, remorsefully. He was cut off By Red Tornado though."Yes, Zatara, we saw. Celestial defenses have failed. Initiate all terrestrial measures." The android said."Affirmative. See you in the field." Zatara said and ended the call.Tornado turned around. "I must join the League. We will protect the planet at all costs. But should we fail, the responsibility falls to you."Aqualad looked at the determined faces of his teammates. "We stand ready."With that, Red Tornado flew out to Smallville where Wonder Woman was already fighting.There fell a short silence over the Team, just long enough for Robin to have a little mental panic attack. "Oh god. Bruce. He's gone. What am I supposed to do now? I can't save Danni on my own, if she can be saved. No of course she can be saved! But without Bruce...who knows? Maybe, just maybe he can somehow come back, I mean, he is Batman. He's my mentor. And I lost him. For a second time I lost my - No he's not gone! This is just a mental training. He warned me this might happen. It's not real, it' just an imaginary world. D-Bruce is fine. He's alive and probably watching over our bodies like the overprotective man he is."Suddenly the computer opened a screen with the CBS News playing, making Kid Flash tense up a little and snap Robin out of his thoughts."This is Iris West-Allen reporting live. The extraterrestrials have brought their relentless global attack to Central City." Iris, aka the Flash's wife and Wally's aunt, said. Behind her a group of people was hit by an alien beam, disintegrating them. Before another ship could hit Iris, the Flash ran in and carried her away, op on a rooftop. "Tropsnart siht namaremac ot ytefas!" Zatara casted and transported the cameraman onto the same rooftop as he was, the Flash and Iris arriving a second later."You should both be safe here. At least for now." Zatara said after Flash put Iris down."Thank you Flash. And Zatara." Iris said, almost saying something else. Flash put a hand on her shoulder before he sped off, Zatara casted another spell and took off as well."Denny, you OK?" Iris asked, only continuing after Denny gave a thumbs up on camera. "As you can see, the Justice League is attempting to hold the line."A group of people was yelling for help. Flash sped up the building and Zatara levitated on there just as an alien ship attacked the rooftop."No." Iris whispered, just having witnessed her husband's death. Another ship came flying in, right towards Iris and Denny."Iris! Iris, get out of there." A coworker tried to warn, but it was already too late. The ship blasted Iris and Denny, the camera feed going blank. The news lady, Cat Grant, bowed her head a little before composing herself and sitting back up. "I'm sorry, we're experiencing technical difficulties from our Central City feed. We take you now to a devastated Taipei, where another League contingent is having a bit more luck." The feed cut to Taipei, just in time to see the Hawks get blasted. Green Arrow fired an arrow at a ship but missed. Black Canary released her cry and destroyed 3 ships. Green Arrow turned around just in time to see another ship flying through the smoke and firing at the 2 of them.The video feed went back to Cat. "Ladies and gentlemen, we've lost Black Canary, Green Arrow, and the Hawks. Other heroes reported dead or missing include Batman, Icon, Adam, and Aquaman."Another screen opened, this time with Wonder Woman. She used her Lasso to swing a ship into another."Wonder Woman, above you." Red Tornado warned.The Amazonian princes crossed her arms to protect herself when a ship fired at her, but it was to no use. Wonder Woman got hit and disappeared like all the other people hit by those beams.A giant ship descended upon Earth and landed on Smallville, taking up the entire length of the village."Red Tornado to cave. I fear I am all that remains of the League." Tornado's metallic voice said while he was still fighting smaller ships and dodging beams."RT-!" Robin tried to warn, but Tornado was shot in the back.The Team watched all the screens, watching the cities get attacked."We are Earth's heroes now." Aqualad announced."So what are we waiting for, a theme song?" Superboy growled, not liking doing nothing while there were aliens attacking Earth and killing people.Everybody turned their attention on Aqualad. "A strategy. Earth's weapons are ineffective. And it has been made tragically clear a direct attack will not succeed."Robin brought up his holo-glove and began to type. "Checking satellite imagery. Here's where the aliens are now." A globe appeared with different intensities of red, showing what placed were hit most. Though it didn't take long for Superboy to notice something. "This one get lost?" He pointed to a lone dot near the North Pole.Robin brought the dot closer and his eyes widened a little at its place. "That's Superman's fortress of solitude." Superboy raised an eyebrow. "Superman has a fortress of solitude?" "Its power source must have attracted the aliens attention, at least enough to send a scout ship to investigate." "Must be some fortress." SB said, turning away from the hologram.Miss Martian softly grabbed him by the arm. "Connor-"But Superboy cut her off. "No, it's OK. I guess there's a lot about Superman I'll never know. Uh, you know, now.""We will target this lone ship." Aqualad said."Yeah, break it down, build more, hit those ugly aliens with their own mojo." Kid said, earning him a punch from Artemis. "Martian and Kryptonian in the house." She growled."Uh, heh heh. Not that all aliens are automatically ugly.""Let's just get ready. Everybody, suit up in Artic gear. Be ready in 5." Robin said, saving his friend from another punch.The other Team members nodded and headed off to their rooms to get their needs stuff, all except for Kid Flash, who stopped Robin. Kid pulled off his cowl, becoming Wally. "Dude, are you okay?" Wally asked worried.Robin turned to face his best friend/ older brother. "Yes. Why wouldn't I be?""You just was your...mentor get killed. And you've been acting a little strange lately. Is something wrong?"Robin raised an eyebrow, not expecting him to ask those questions. "I'm fine. Are you okay, though? You just saw your uncle and aunt get killed."Wally sighted, rubbing the back of his neck. "Yeah. I mean, I would be freaking out if this was real, but it's just a mental training exercise. Everybody is alive and kicking. Though it does hurt a little. No matter how much training you get, some things will never get easier. Hope Roy is doing okay." Wally chuckled a little. "I think I could use one of his hugs when this is over."Robin inwardly smiled a little, imagining Wally's version of Roy hugging him. That's always more like Wally crushing the air out of Roy 'till Roy returns the 'hug' with equal power. "We better get ready before the Team starts wondering where we are." He said, his posture never changing from his emotionless pose.Wally slimed, trying to hide his disappointment in not getting the little bird to laugh or even smile. "Yeah, we should go."DanniThe scene cleared, and was turned into the practice tent. A little Danni and Dick were swinging on the trapezes. Though they weren't set as high as they would have been of the elder Graysons were practicing, they were pretty high. Little Danni and Dick kept laughing and doing tricks 'till they were called down by their parents.Climbing down the ladder on the post that led up to the platforms, the twins were still laughing and once they stood on the ground, cartwheeled and flipped over to their parents. Mari laughed and shook her head fondly. "How is it that every year you two have all this energy and can't seem to burn it up?"Little Danni and Dick got their, now their trademark, shit eating grins in their faces and cartwheeled around their parents. "Mari, did you have to ask that? Now they'll never stop." John whined a bit overdramatic. But it didn't take long for him to get a mischievous grin on his face. He sighted overdramatically and stepped out of the circle the twins had made in the sand with their cartwheels. "I guess we'll never get them to sit still long enough to give them their Birthday presents. We'll have to wait until next year I think." He said, barely containing his laughter when the twins stopped mid turn and fell flat on their backs, almost in 2 perfect stars. Their faces full fear and watery eyes.Hoping that their tactic would work, the twins stayed still until their dad turned around and walked back to them, lifting little Danni off the ground while Mari took Dick."Okay, are you ready?" Mari asked and the formerly limp bodies of the twins shot up and climbed onto their parents' shoulders. "YES!" They exclaimed and threw their fists in the air in perfect unison. "Someday, you really have to tell us how you two keep doing that." John said and started walking out of the tent."Easy." Little Danni said. "It's all a matter of..." Dick said. "Twin telepathy!" they both yelled and burst out in a mess of giggles and tears when their dad face palmed and muttered a "Never mind." Before he too started chuckling.It took a while for all of them to calm down but they got to where they wanted to go. A little meadow that was just outside of circus grounds. "Dad, what are we doing here?" Dick asked, playing this a daisy."Waiting for your presents to arrive." John said and whistled really loud.Suddenly, Peanut, Zikita and Hatty came out of the distance. They walked over to them and trumpeted happily. Peanut wrapped his trunk around little Danni's waist and lifted her onto his back, Zikita doing the same to Dick. Around the elephants' neck was a lint with something hidden inside it. Once the twins unwrapped the hidden treasure they squeaked and hugged it close. The hidden treasure was a stuffed elephant, one with a blue lint around its neck and a pendant hanging on that. On the pendant was a pink 'P'. The other had a pink lint and a pendant with a blue 'Z' on it.The scene warmed Teen Danni's heart a little, she did miss her stuffed Peanut. But there was nothing she could do about it. Well, she could break in into Wayne Manor and get it back, but that would ruin everything.Teen Danni watched a little longer at mini her and her brother playing with the stuffed animals as well as the real ones before the scene faded again.PresentThe Bioship flew at top speed to the Fortress. Robin was looking outside searching the ice and snow, the icy tundra already having taken over the landscape, for any missed ships.The lone ship was facing the Fortress, but wasn't engaging. M'gann opened a mind link and, along with Artemis, snuck out of the Bioship and got ready for attack. Artemis snuck behind a rock formation and readied her bow. M'gann flew above the ship, while in camouflage mode, and tore off a part of the ship. "Communications disabled." The ship fell to the ground. "Propulsion disabled."Artemis came out of hiding and shot at the ship, covering a part of it in foam. "And ETs are sealed inside."The ship began firing at the rocks Artemis was still hiding behind, barely missing her. Aqualad jumped out of the water and onto the ship. Before the ship could shoot at him, Wolf attacked the gun and spun it around, clearing Aqualad from its line of fire. Superboy grabbed the gun, holding it in place, while Wolf let go and Robin and Kid Flash came running in. Robin jumped off of KF's back and flipped onto the ship, showing off his acrobatic skills in a rare moment. Robin quickly started working on his hole-computer. "Identifying weapon's structural stress points and links to the ship. Here, here, and here." He pointed to 3 areas on the neck of the gun. M'gann used her telekinetics to break off the appointed areas. Superboy started to pull on the gun, slowly removing it from the ship, and didn't notice some kind of defense system charging up at his leg. Though Wolf did. He jumped up and pushed Superboy out of the way of the beam, sacrificing himself.Superboy rolled when he touched the ground and turned around to stare for a second at the place where Wolf was disintegrated. "Wolf." M'gann said over the link. Robin turned back to his computer. "There was no indication of feedback." He said, showing no emotion. SB looked down. "Can't do anything for him now." He climbed the ship back up and grabbed the gun again. "Let's go." With a little more pulling and a little help from M'gann, the gun was successfully removed from the alien ship. M'gann brought the Bioship back and she and SB, holding the gun, jumped on it.SB maneuvered the gun so that it was positioned more in the middle of the ship. M'gann put her hand on the ship and activated its weapon integration proses. "Rerouting systems to integrate weapon into ship's biomatrix. We'll need to decamouflage for a few minutes." She decamouflaged the ship while Aqualad, KF and Robin jumped onto the ship. 2 enemy ships flew overhead, likely been attracted by the shot that killed Wolf. "May not have a few minutes." Robin said. The 2 ships turned around and headed straight for the Bioship."Miss Martian, open fire." Aqualad ordered."Can't. Weapon systems are offline to incorporate the new cannon. And that's not fully integrated yet, either.""Got you covered. Get inside. I'm almost there." Artemis said and fired 3 arrows before running to the Bioship. One ship blew up, being hit by an arrow head-on. The other crashed to the ground, but was still operational. The ship aimed at Artemis. "Artemis, behind you." Miss M warned. Artemis turned around, ready to shoot the ship, but was hit before she could release the arrow. "ARTEMIS!" M'gann screamed, gaping at the spot where her friend once stood."Artemis!" Was Wally's only reaction, while he also stared at the spot his Teammate once occupied.Aqualad slid off of the top of the Bioship and got his water bearers out. "Get inside. All of you." He ordered before breaking the ice between him and the ship. The ship was repelled upwards by the water before it could shoot again. Aqualad made ice spikes out of the water and fired them at the ship, blowing it up.Wally glared at the spot where the ship blew up. His fists shaking in anger by his sides. "They're dead. Every single alien, if it's the last thing I do." He growled out, before picking up a stray piece of ice and throwing it into the water with all his might and stepping into the Bioship. The rest of the Team followed wordlessly. DanniThe scene cleared again, this time it was just a few miles outside of Gotham. It was before she made it into Gotham. Wasn't this where she met that one kid?Memory Danni was walking at the side of the road. Humming Funhouse by Pink that suddenly popped into her head. She closed her eyes and imagined herself in her room at the manor, randomly dancing and singing along with a list of songs until it was time for dinner. Suddenly she bumped into someone and fell on the ground. The person she walked into yelped as he too fell to the ground. "Hey! Watch where you're going!" The boy said. Memory Danni rubbed her head and looked over at the boy. He had black hair and had teal blue eyes. He was just a little smaller then memory Danni, but that wasn't saying much. Both she and her brother were small for their age. Looking at this boy, she'd guess he's about 9 or so. Memory Danni took the offered hand of the boy and dusted herself off. "I'm sorry. I-I'm Danni, by the way. Danni Grayson. And you are...?" Memory Danni said with a smile on her face, trying to hide her cursing herself for telling him her real last name.The boy looked at her for a moment before smiling as well. "I'm Jason, Jason Todd." Jason said and frowned a little. "You look familiar, have we met before?"Memory Danni flinched ever so slightly at the question, hoping that he wouldn't draw the connection between Dick and her. "No, I don't think so." Jason continued frowning, making Memory Danni uncomfortable. "You really do look familiar. Do you have a celebrity look-alike or something?""Or something." Memory Danni thought but shook her head.Jason frowned again, musing out loud. "You really do look familiar, but from where? Don't think I've ever seen you around the city before, but then again, Gotham is a big city. Maybe from TV, or a billboard? Ya know, you look like a female version of that one guy's ward, Richard G..." Jason's voice trailed off at the end, realization hitting him like a ton of bricks. "Y-y-you-you a-a-aren't his sister or something, r-right?" Jason stuttered.Memory Danni sighed and lowered her head, rubbing the back of her neck. "Yeah, I am." She said a little uncomfortable. "But you can't tell anyone!" She added, eyes full of fear and almost down right begging him not to.Jason took a while to recover from the shock but found his voice again and tried to calm the girl in front of him. "Don't worry, I won't. I promise. You're not the only one that doesn't want his blood relations known to the world. So to make it even, my dad was a lowlife crook working for Two-face. He was killed in a gang war. And my mom is a drug addict." Jason said with a sad smile.Both Danni's looked up at those words. Memory Danni looked into his eyes and could tell he wasn't lying. She ran over to him and hugged him, shocking Jason a little before he returned the hug. "Thanks." Memory Danni whispered into Jason's ear before the scene started to fade away.PresentThe Bioship was flying through a thick layer of clouds, at a slow and steady pace. M'gann, who was piloting the ship, was sobbing. SB was looking down, lost in his thoughts. Kaldur was watching M'gann. KF was glaring at the ground, slightly shaking in anger. Robin looked as emotionless as ever, lost in his thoughts."Artemis is gone. Really gone. And if she's gone, so are the others. Bruce, he promised to never leave me. He promised to always be there for me. He promised to have my back, to be there when I need someone to talk to. But he also promised to never replace my dad, but I guess he did break that one. It may not have looked like it, but I really did like spending time with him. He was there for me and Danni when our parents died. He was there to calm me down after a nightmare. He was there to stop me from killing Zucco and send him to prison, though after getting his ass kicked again by Batman. He was there for me when we saw the news of Danni's 'death'. Helped me through all that. And now he isn't here to help me through this anymore. Oh god. Danni! What if the aliens got her too? What if the Joker was killed, and she escaped? She could be out there! Maybe Alfred can find her, he was supposed to be out shopping when Bruce went to space. If only I can find a way to contact him without the chance of the aliens intercepting it. I know! I could just propose to-"Robin's chain of thoughts was interrupted by KF beating the table in front of him."There will be time to mourn later." Aqualad said, his voice layered with sadness, and stood up making all heads snap his way. "Now we have a job to do. Defend the Earth and ensure Artemis' sacrifice was not in vain.""Back to the cave?" M'gann asked."The hall of justice. The human race must know that there are still heroes defending them. There is still hope." Aqualad said.Robin took his chance to make his excuse to go to Gotham, alone. "Um, guys? If you don't mind, I think it'll be best to go check on our families. See if they're okay. Central and Gotham aren't that fat apart and Aqualad, you could try to contact Atlantis, to see if the aliens got there too. M'gann and Superboy could go back to the cave and get supplies."The Team was silent for a moment, contemplating on the idea. It would be best to see if there were any troubles in Atlantis, maybe get some reinforcements from there. And letting the two boys see if their family was okay could help clear their mind one they get them to safety. Aqualad looked at his teammates before he made his decision. "Okay. You may go. M'gann will drop you off, you'll get 30 minutes to make sure they are okay and to get them to a safer place if needed. We will rendezvous at the same location we dropped Robin off."Robin nodded and gave the co-ordinations of his drop point to M'gann. Wally did the same, calming down a little. The thought of his parents, even though he doesn't really like them all that much, calmed him down. Knowing that his probably only living blood relatives were alive would calm him down.The rest of the flight was spend in silence, with the occasional sob from M'gann. Soon they reached Robin's drop zone. "Contact us if there are any troubles." Aqualad said. Robin nodded and ran out of the Bioship, behind a building, and used a dumpster to hide behind before one of the passing ships saw him. The Bioship left again, flying in the direction of Central City.Carefully climbing up a fire escape, he looked around. There weren't as many ships left, probably due to Batman's city defense system they made together with Danni for situations as these or because there weren't many people to disintegrate anymore.Gotham was a strong standing city, she's been through bad situations before. But situations like the one that resulted in the formation of the Justice League made Batman's paranoia grow. He knew that he won't always be there to protect his city, so we made a defense to protect it and its sister cities. When Batman's button was pressed, the system activated in both Gotham and Blüdhaven. The Flash and Green Arrow both have the same system for their cities, both having asked for it so their protégés wouldn't have to fight alone. Every Wayne Tech building, Batcave, Batmobile, Batwing and Batplane (when not destroyed already), Arrowcave, Queen Consolidated building and Star labs had specialized weapons to fight off enemy attacks when activated. The Batmobile stays in Gotham, but with an added command, the Batwing goes to Central and the Batplane goes to Star to help protect it. "I hope Barry and Oliver activated it. Roy and KF don't know about it."Shaking his head to clear it, Robin headed towards Artemis' home, deciding to make a little detour and check on Paula, Artemis' mom. It wasn't that much of a detour so it wouldn't hurt. Once he got to the building, he hid under a car and stared at the building, or what's left of it. The building had collapsed. And by the looks of it, he wasn't the only one that had thought about checking on Paula. Both Cheshire and Sportsmaster went to there. They probably were on their way out again, with Paula, when it collapsed.Not being able to waist more time on staring at the scene, Robin started making his way to the outskirts of Gotham where he ordered the Batmobile to go. Apparently the car really was like a tank because it wasn't destroyed yet. Robin got in the car and let the autopilot drive him to the Manor. He checked how long he had before they were going to come get them, 20 minutes. Guessing that the drive to the Manor was going to take another minute or two, he said an alarm for 15 minutes so that he'd have enough time to get out of where he was and get back to his drop zone before the Team arrived.For some miracle, no ships had seen the giant black tank of a car. Jumping out of the Mobile, Robin ran inside the Manor and send the Batmobile to go to the Batcave and wait for him to return. Robin entered the kitchen and saw that Alfred had returned with the groceries but had left again, leaving a note on his phone that he forgot that morning. "Dear master Richard,I had returned with the groceries, but saw what was happening in the city.I decided to go see if Miss Gordon was alright and then go to the public bunker at the Academy with her.Feel free to call whenever you want to be sure we are alright,though I do hope you'll be careful, sir.Master Bruce's absence makes it even more dangerous.Be safe,Alfred."Robin picked up his phone and checked his messages. He got a few from his friends, asking if he was okay, but he got only one from Barbara. "Alfred came to pick me up. He said you and Bruce are at the Manor and that he only came to get me because he was in the neighborhood. We're going to the bunker at the Academy, Bette is already there. I don't know where my dad or any of the police officers are, I think the aliens got them. It'll be too dangerous outside so please stay there. See you when this is all over."Robin looked at the time. 7 minutes before he has to begin making his way back to the drop zone. Just enough time to drop by at the Academy and check if they got there.He called the Batmobile back and checked the security cameras in the Batcave to see if the Batwing was called out. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the wing wasn't there, but he wasn't getting any signals from it so that means that it was destroyed.He got into the car and drove to the Academy. He parked the car in a dark ally and, via the sewers, got to the school yard. He quickly and stealthily got inside and used the ventilation shafts to get to the bunker under the school.After a moment of searching he found Alfred standing with Barbara and Bette. He texted Alfred that he was okay and glad that they got to the Academy.Robin left the same way he got in and drove the Batmobile a few blocks away from his drop zone. He decided to grapple the rest of the way, no ships were in the air. Though that troubled him. As he shot his grapple, there was a big explosion somewhere in the distance. Turning around to where the notice came from, his heart stopped for a second. There was a giant mushroom cloud at the same place where the Manor was. "So that's where they are." He thought bitterly. He quickly made his way over to the rendezvous point, where he met up with Kid Flash."Hey, dude. Are they safe?" KF asked.Robin nodded. "Yeah. Alfred got home and left a note saying that he was going to get Barbara and go to the bunker at the Academy. I went to check and they got there safely. Your parents?"KF sighted and looked away, not wanting to meet his friend's masked eyes. "I got to the house but it was blown up. The car wasn't there so I went to the school to check if they went there, but that was blown up as well. I searched the most logical places but they were nowhere to be found. Though I did find the Batwing, it crashed into the ground with a giant hole in it. Probably shot by the aliens. Though I don't know why it was in Central in the first place.""Don't know either." Robin lied. Suddenly their communicators went off. "Robin, Kid Flash, we are almost in position." Aqualad said. "We are at the drop zone, ready for pick up." KF said.A few moments later the Bioship landed and the boys got in. "Any word from Atlantis?" Robin asked."Yes, though the aliens have gotten there, there weren't many. There are a few ships left but it looks like their communications don't work under water. They will send reinforcements when those are taken care of.""Were your families safe?" M'gann asked, flying the Bioship to the Hall."Mine are missing, probably never made it to a safe place, though a few of my friends did give me some sign that they're okay." KF said, probably referring to Barbara."Mine are in a bunker under Gotham Academy. Some of my friends made it as well." "Though there wasn't any sign of the Joker going out. None of the criminal big leagues actually." Robin said. "Well then, let's go to the Hall Of Justice."