Disclaimer: Sadly, all i own is my imagination. The people here didn't come from me, but the people at DC comics. I just love their stories

The votes are in! Here's your epilogue! Isn't much, but originally I wasn't going to write one. Tell me how you like it.

Hero's Debt

Epilogue

"The Doom Patrol was last sighted in Southern Balia," Batman explained to the team. "The exact nature of their investigation wasn't revealed to the League, but a distress beacon sounded off two weeks ago for an hour. First assumptions of the team managing to escape their predicament have recently proven false."

The picture of a ten year old green boy in a purple uniform flashed before them. "Their youngest member, Beast Boy, was found by Aquaman in the Balian sea yesterday, severely wounded."

"Cool. They've got a kid on their team," Kid Flash commented, and was subsequently jabbed in the ribs by Artemis.

Batman continued as if nothing was said. "Your mission is to find out what happened to the rest of the Doom Patrol. Beast Boy is currently recovering in Atlantis, but is unable to speak at the moment."

Batman gave them a detailed plan of entry, giving them strict instructions for when they arrived. Radio silence unless they were under attack, mostly because the Doom Patrol were a group of experts and had vanished. The League was on alert to rescue them and the patrol if needed. Secretly, everyone hoped or believed the kids could take care of it, especially when they found the patrol. Instructions to leave were also in place, should they manage to find and save the patrol, or find information as to their whereabouts. They were not to risk a confrontation with the locals or any of the Doom Patrol's enemies.

After thirty minutes of instruction, Batman sent them on their way. KF and Artemis were nearly to the door then he called them back in. Slightly confused, both teenagers turned back and saw Batman and Robin looking at them. Robin looked a little sheepish but walked towards the exit slowly. He knew what was coming. Batman only said one sentence.

"Good job on the Grayson case."

The two teens blinked in surprise, dumbfounded.

"Um… thanks," KF started, but couldn't say anything more. Batman turned around, heading to the Zeta Tubes to go home. Kid Flash then decided to turn on Robin who joined them towards the ship. "What was that about?"

Robin was trying not to make eye contact. He was actually really embarrassed by it all. "He's praising you two. It's actually the highest praise he gives, really. You really did a great job, saving him that is. It's his way of saying 'thanks'. He's… not really that good at saying it."

Sheepishly Robin gave them a smile. "So, thanks guys. Thanks for taking care of it. We would have, really, but another case kinda kept us away."

"What kind of case?" Artemis asked, curious. What in all the world would keep Batman and Robin away from Two-face and a high profile kidnapping?

"A really hush hush embarrassing one." Robin ran a hand through his hair a few times, obviously not wanting to talk about it. "It kinda put us both out of commission this past week. Saving Grayson wasn't an option, no matter how upset either of us got when we heard about it. When Alf—our friend told us you guys were handling, it really helped out."

Artemis and KF couldn't help but see Robin's nervousness as he talked about this. Awkward and cute in a way, but they couldn't say a word about it. They didn't know Robin was trying to figure out a way to thank them properly for saving his life without revealing his identity. Batman thought long and hard of a way to thank them himself, but it was harder for him to say anything like that than it was for Robin.

"So, thanks. Thanks a million."

KF grinned while Artemis looked down embarrassed and pleased. KF clapped Robin on the shoulder, ready to take the credit. "No problem Rob! What are friends for? Besides, I don't think you'd want to meet this Grayson kid anyway."

Artemis and Robin gave the speedster strained curious looks as he rambled on. "The kid was a bit of a brat. He called me Flash Kid and said I was from Keystone! And he kept asking where Batman was."

"Wally, he wasn't that bad." Artemis stepped in to defend Robin's other persona, much to his pleasure. "Not everyone knows who you are, and he just reversed your name. And wasn't the first Flash from Keystone?"

"You only liked him because he called you a goddess."

"And he saved my life! Broke a chair over Two-face and everything!" Artemis smirked as she looked over to Robin to explain. "Really, that kid was brave. He had the guts to hurt his attackers and even told the cops Batman and Green Arrow saved him for us. I think he could be a hero some day."

"The kid got my name wrong!"

"Everyone gets your name wrong!"

Robin bit back a laugh watching those two bicker. It was always entertaining and the fact they were fighting over his true identity was hysterical! Without them realizing it, Robin darted into the ship and took his seat. Before the bickering love-birds entered, and without even trying to explain it to the others, he burst into uncontrollable laughter. Everyone looked at him oddly until Artemis and KF made it to the ship. The rest heard the argument escalate but didn't understand how the subjects of names and powers came into play. Robin laughed for a little while longer, then pulled it back into a giggle before the ship took off. Their teammates looks of confusion were funny too, but if Robin gave out any more loud laughs, he was certain M'gann would scan his mind to find out what was so funny.

Stop laughing Robin. He heard over his intercom. Batman was on the line still. Radio silence would commence once they were over international waters. They're doing their bests.

Robin gave one last snicker before calming down, but the grin didn't leave his face. "Roger," he said back lowly so the others couldn't hear. His personal jokes would have to wait until they returned from this mission.

Still, two of his friends arguing over whether his real self was a good guy or not was hysterical.

END

A/N: you wanted an epilogue, here it is! Vague on purpose, really, but I enjoyed it. Batman wouldn't be that good at saying thanks for something like this, but giving his highest praise (really, that and "you did good" are really his ideas of praises) is all he could do in that scenario. Robin laughing at one of their arguments would be in his character too.

No I'm not writing that mission. Don't know enough about Doom Patrol or about "Balia" to do it. Plus, unless there's a lot of character interaction, I'm not really the mission making type here. DC's way better. I prefer doing the in between or after mission scenarios. Writing a fight scene isn't easy for me at all, plus I'm no good thinking like a bad guy. I actually think a lot more like Batman. *looks away*

Hope you enjoyed! I will post more stories after I'm done with them.