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Chapter Three: The Cave

The team brought the two teens to Mount Justice. They exited from the bio-ship that Miss.Martian piloted. They were relieved to be back.

It was pretty routine for Nightwing. There was a prison escape, set up by the villain, Sportsmaster, to cause mass panic and get the most dangerous criminals out of Arkham Asylum. The team foiled the plan like almost all the others.

Nightwing expected the night to go like all the others. Arrive, make a plan, the plan goes horribly wrong, there's a huge battle, everything works out in the end. He most definitely didn't expect to find two bleeding teens that looked lost, terrified, and a long way from home. But rescuing and saving people was what they do. The biggest surprise was that the two seemed to have powers.

They went toward the debriefing room... until.

"Um... guys," Superboy said.

They turned to see Aqualad and Superboy still carrying the knocked out twins. Nightwing mentally slapped himself for forgetting about the two bleeding kids.

"Right. I'll take them to the infirmary," he said.

"NO," both boys blurted out, shocking the team.

"We mean that we'll do it," Aqualad says.

The two walked away without even waiting for a response. Most of them just brushed it off.

" Not whelmed, not whelmed at all, " Nightwing thought. " Then again, they've been acting strange since we found them. Must be stress. "

"Nightwing and Robin, report to debriefing," Batman called.

The rest of the team went to their own rooms. Batman was in the briefing room when his first and second protégées entered.

"Mission was a success. All criminals were stopped and put back in their cells," he told his mentor. "But Sportsmaster was able to escape."

"We also encountered two more people, the two neither friend nor foe," Robin then added.

Batman's gaze hardened into a glare.

"Explain," he ordered.

"We had been searching for any stragglers that might have gone into the forest," Nightwing explained. "We had followed the paths of two blurs in the trees. It turned out to be two teenagers, no older than sixteen. It was just the two of them, alone and they looked scared. We offered to bring them home and call their parents, that's when they started resisting. We had to try forcing them until..."

Batman simply waited, noticing the hesitation.

"Superboy smelled blood, and I mean a lot of it. One had cut his leg while the other had a wound on his head. Sportsmaster had used one of his exploding javelins on them. They needed medical attention."

"And where did you take them," Batman asked, after thinking for a bit.

Robin hesitated for a bit, but managed a small, and awkward, "here."

"You brought CIVILIANS to Mount Justice," Batman growled, narrowing his eyes at Nightwing and Robin.

"It's not like that," Nightwing explained, straightening up. "These two boys were... different."

Batman kept his eyes narrowed.

"Batman, they claim to have never heard of the Justice League, or any of the other heroes," Robin told him. "We told them about our mentors, and they both looked completely in the dark. They were genuinely confused."

Batman was caught off guard by this. Even in the most remote of areas, people have heard of the league.

"Also, one of them created this type of shield made from gold light, or something like that," Artemis says, the rest of the team coming in.