All the Robins!

Notes: I'm going to put the prompt at the end of this chapter instead of the start. Trying something different there, tell me what you prefer. Now, I found this one a few weeks ago and it sounds like fun. The timeline's a mash-up of the comics, Young Justice and probably whatever else I've read/heard/seen about the DC universe regarding Robins and Batman.

Jason is based off what I've seen of him in comics (which is more than Tim, actually). He's a lot happier and more hopeful than some of the lore paints him as now. I've based his uniform off the Young Justice one (Damian is the only one where I haven't done that because he doesn't appear). Looking at Jason's memorial, I noticed that he's kind of more muscular than the other Robins.

Tim is based more off his personality traits so he will probably be slightly out of character. Most of my exposure to Tim is him as Red Robin. I've only seen pieces of Young Justice Season Two, so he's probably not going to match that.

Damian. His outfit is based off the comics, mostly. Also, this: "this cannot be good" by TwinEnigma on deviantart. It's beautiful.

Part 1 – Calling Future Robins

When we started this team, I was desperate to be in charge.

Not anymore.

That's not me.

I-I don't want to be the Batman anymore.

It wasn't Wally who noticed first but Kaldur. Robin used to ask him questions about being leader, about making choices as well as theorise and express some worry about what it would be like when he became leader.

That all stopped after the Failsafe mission. And Robin's session with Black Canary didn't seem to help with his new reluctance to lead.

After Halloween, Kaldur brought it up with the team. No one laughed or joked about it, not even Wally. Zatanna was the one who silenced anyone's response by innocently asking;

"Robin wanted to be leader?"

Because, to the rest of the team, Robin was going to be their leader one day. It had been that way since their first mission together. Even Artemis agreed that Robin would grow into their leader.

But if Zatanna, unofficially their newest member, didn't realise that, then there was something off with Robin.

"We need to help," Conner stated, the group agreeing.

"But, how?" Artemis questioned, "it's not going to take a slap on the back and being a team to fix this."

"Maybe we could," Wally trailed off with no ideas coming.

"Talk to him about it?" Kaldur suggested.

"No way. He's Bat-trained. The Bat-trained don't talk."

"Not even to Batman?" Zatanna questioned.

Wally looked at her like she was crazy.

"Bats don't talk to bats."

"But, he's a Robin," M'gann questioned.

Zatanna clapped her hands and smiled a bright smile. Her face practically screamed 'idea' even before she announced as much.

"What are you going to do?"

"Gnirg em eht erutuf Nibor!"

Jason leapt out of the Batmobile with a smirk and a flip. It had been a productive night catching criminals and Batman even gave him a small proud smile! He couldn't wait to call Nightwing and tell him how the night went.

"Huh?" he muttered. It sounded like someone was whispering in the distance. He paused and looked around the cave.

"Robin?" Batman questioned in concern when Jason paused.

Jason was straining to hear the voices. Words he couldn't understand, whispered from the darkness.

"Hello?" Jason called right before his vision exploded with light.

Tim gave a muted smile as he returned to the familiar streets of Gotham after meeting with the team. Nightwing was still in Bludhaven and Batman was busy trying to recapture Scarecrow after his escape the previous night.

Something shifted in the shadows above him. Tim's smile faded into a serious expression as he extended his line and propelled himself up to the roof of the building.

"Batman," he greeted.

"Robin. I have located Scarecrow. Let's go."

Tim nodded. He was expected to be able to keep going, even if he just came back from a mission.

He was ready to move when he heard something behind him. He paused and turned.

Nothing there but he could hear voices. He extended his staff.

"Robin?" Batman questioned. Tim turned to him to explain what he was hearing however, bright light assaulted his vision before he could get the words out.

Damian stood by as Batman walked silently through the apartment. There was a chalk outline on the floor, where the body of a woman had been found earlier.

"Why couldn't we just read the reports and be done with it?" Damian grumbled, bored and itching to go out and beat people up. To use the training which now came naturally to him.

"Because the reports don't mention things which aren't there," Batman responded causing Damian to sigh.

Grayson could be annoyingly cryptic at times.

"Like what?" Damian huffed.

Batman gave a chuckle and opened the door.

"What do you notice?" he asked. Damian frowned at Grayson's attempts to teach him detective work. Honestly, Damian's father was the greatest detective, he should be learning from him.

Except Damian knew his father wouldn't have the patience to teach him things like this. Only Grayson did.

"It's a door," he responded. The corner of Grayson's mouth twitched, the most amusement he would allow himself to show while wearing the cowl.

"The report states the suspect entered from here."

Damian frowned. So the suspect knew how to use doors. So what?

"An armed someone is at your door, what would you do?"

"Arm myself? Disarm them?" Damian's head hurt as he tried to figure it out. He hated it when he couldn't get the answer Grayson wanted.

"And if you couldn't do that?"

Damian's mind felt like a wall. An unhelpful wall with no answers on it.

"I'm thinking!" Damian said to the whispers he could hear.

"Robin?" Batman questioned in a worried tone.

Damian looked up at him.

"Didn't you say something?" he asked right before his vision went white.

"ROBIN!" He heard Grayson bellow before his hearing fuzzed out.

Batman watched as his Robin vanished his a burst of light.

"ROBIN!" His heart thudded in his throat as his senses sharpened. But there was nothing around him. None of their enemies should have been able to pull something like this.

A new player? But this was a targeted attack against Robin.

Batman's eyes narrowed as he vowed to find Damian. The kid might be the best escape artist he had ever seen but this attack screamed magic.

"B, we have a problem. Get Zatanna here. Now, please."

The Team stared at the four, similarly costumed people collapsed in a pile before them.

"Zatanna, what did you do?" Kid Flash questioned in a shocked voice. The pile was coloured in familiar red, green, black and yellow.

"I thought it would help if Robin spoke to his future self. That talking his future self could help ease his worries."

"But?" Artemis prompted because obviously something had gone wrong.

"Those aren't our Robin," Zatanna commented.

"Robin is not Robin's real name. Like how Batman isn't Batman's real name," Kid Flash sighed. Not that he would have given Rob's real name up for something like this; how were they supposed to expect something like this?

"So, they came from the future?" M'gann questioned.

"Geez, how many Robins are there?" Artemis grumbled. "I thought one was bad enough."

"Zatanna, can you reverse the spell?" Kaldur questioned.

She hesitated before answering.

"I don't know."

Worry settled over the Team. They had a bunch of Robins who shouldn't have been there and no way to send them back.

"Robin's going to freak," Kid Flash commented. And although they all thought it, none of them wanted to voice what would happen when Batman found out.

At that moment, the pile shifted.

"WHAT THE? Who are you posers supposed to be?"

"Drake, get your foot out of my face!"

"JASON? And who're you?"

"Wait? Is that Todd?"

"ROB-IN! No real names in the field! Didn't the boss teach you nothin'?"

"But…I'm also Robin."

"And I'M Robin! The best Robin!"

"Right. So, where are we?"

"Looks like Mount Justice. But…"

"But what? Speak up replacement!"

"Don't call me that!"

"Ugh! Stop gawking! That goes too for yous hidden behind that couch!"

The Team edged out from behind the couch, the three Robins glaring at them.

"Uh, hi?" Kid Flash said. The glares increased. "Yeah, none of them are our Robin."

Zatanna wasn't fazed in the slightest.

"We can't all call you Robin. Got names?"

"No real names in the field," the all responded. In unison.

"Creepy Robins," Kid Flash moaned.

"So Batman never gets rid of that rule," Artemis sighed. "We're never going to learn Robin's name."

"That was never the goal here," Kaldur reminded her.

Kaldur managed to talk the Robins into sitting on the couch so they could explain. Despite wearing the Robin costume, although there were differences, they were all different. Noticeably different. The Team communicated via the mind link.

One, dubbed 'Beefy Robin' due to obvious upper body muscle their Robin didn't have; Kid Flash shuddered for the poor guy but Artemis and M'gann insisted on the title, wore a different shaped mask. It was smoother. His cape had a yellow clasp that none of the other Robins possessed and a smoother looking belt due to minimal pockets. His hair was parted in two down the centre as opposed to parted to one side like their Robin.

The other was dubbed timid Robin due to his habit of looking like he wanted to say something and then not saying anything and shifting awkwardly away from the Beefy Robin. Plus he had said 'but' twice in the first few moments and spoke in a more pleasant tone than the other two. He pulled his dark hair back, had a pointed mask like their Robin but was missing the yellow trim along the cape. His costume was slightly darker in tone and his belt looked much nicer than beefy Robin and their Robin.

The last one, Kid Flash dubbed 'Bat Robin'. He insisted because that Robin hadn't stopped giving them the Bat Glare. He had short hair which was spiked at the fringe. The biggest differences between him and their Robin were the green boots and gloves and the hood. This one's cape came with a hood which he had pulled up right before sitting down, despite being indoors. His belt had more pockets than their Robin's, which was only possible because they appeared smaller.

A final difference they noticed was that their Robin had short sleeves. These Robins didn't. Beefy Robin and Bat Robin both had long dark sleeves and Timid Robin had red sleeves, all reaching beyond their gloves. If it weren't for their faces, the Team wouldn't know that Timid Robin had the lightest skin and Bat Robin was barely the darkest, although that could have been the shadow from the hood.

"Your magic mojo messed up," Beefy Robin summed up with a shrug. "I guess that means we're stuck for a while." He got baffled looks from everyone. "What? That's how this stuff works, isn't it? We get stuck for a while, until you or our Batmans can figure it out."

"Batmen," Bat Robin corrected.

"What?"

"The plural is Batmen."

"Geez, picky aren't you? It's not like the Boss ever announced to the world how to pluralise it."

Damian bit his tongue from stating that, yes, the plural Batmen was confirmed and used. His father was still a Batman, even though Grayson was the Batman of Gotham.

"Grammatically it makes sense," Timid Robin commented, flinching away from the glare the Beefy Robin sent him.

[What have we done?] Kid Flash moaned through the mind link in worry as he watched the Robins interact.

Prompt: Future Robins

After Failsafe and some more recent episodes, the Team has started to notice that Robin is very scared of being a leader. They all know that he could be good, but he's too worried and scared of himself and what he could do.

So, in order to prove to him that he WILL be a good leader, they decide to bring his future self there to prove it. (using magic or a machine or whatever. Though is Zatanna is on the team, magic is probably the most logical choice)

Only because they don't know Robin's real name they just use 'robin'.

Thus it brings ALL of the future Robins there : Dick, Tim, Jason, and Damian. (and steph if you want)

Bonus: The Robins don't tell at first which is which and so the team is trying to guess which one is actually THEIR Robin.

Second Bonus: It is while Dick is Batman which creates even more worries for Current!Dick

Third Bonus: Jason trolls everyone

Forth Bonus: Damian calls Bruce 'father' by accident. Or he knows who artemis's family is since he used to be part of the League of Shardows. either she calls him out, or he calls her out.