Chapter 1: Time

Mary's alarm went off. She sleepily picked it up and through it at the wall. Luckily her parents had gotten her an indestructible one so it didn't brake. The groggy 13-year-old put her pillow over her head, trying to block out the sounds of New Gotham. But her mother wasn't having that...

"Mary get up!" her mother called from the kitchan but when there was no reply "Mary Sindella Grayson! Wake up!"

Mary sat up and moved the stray strands of her raven hair out of her face. She rubbed her eyes and yawned. At the bottom of her bed was her usual clothing choice. Ripped-at-the-knee jeans, long sleeved top with hood and short sleeved top to go on top.

"Mary get up!" repeated Mrs Grayson "We have guests,"

...20 MINUTES LATER...

Mary walked into the kitchan. At the table, talking to her father, was a redheaded man with green eyes. Stood up, talking to her mother, was a blond woman with gray eyes.

"Hi Aunt Artemis. Hi Uncle Wally," Mary said, reaching into a cuboard and pulling out some serial.

"Hi kiddo!" Wally chimed, momentarily pausing his chat with Mr Grayson.

"Welcome to the land of the awake, Mary," said Mr Grayson, taking a sip of coffee then spluttering "That's it. We need a new coffee maker,"

"I've been saying that for a while now, Richard," said his wife.

"Ok, ok. You win Zee," said Richard.

"Those are my 3 favourite words to hear you say, Dick," Zee said.

During this less-than-educational conversation, no one had noticed the raven-haired boy metirialize into one of the chairs. That is, all exept Dick.

"Morning, son," he said, looking at the 10-year-old "Got anything planned,"

"Dick, he's 10. Way to young to have plans," said Zee, kissing her husband on the cheek.

"I had plans when I was 10, Zatanna," said Dick "Then again. They were mostly plans to train with Bats,"

"I'm just trying to find a way to make my leg-suport spell last longer," said the timid 10-year-old.

Mary sat next to him and peared into his book to see what he was reading. Magic spells. That was all Giovarni Grayson ever read. Mary only knew a few magic spells her mother had taught her. Mary only really remembered 2. One to change into uniform and one to change the red streaks in her hair to raven black.

"Well... if ya need me I'll be at 'work'," said Dick, everyone knew when he said 'work' he meant Watchtower.

"See you sweetie," Zatanna said, kissing her husband good-bye and handing him his black utility belt.

"Better go with Dick," said Wally, zipping to his feet and kissing Artemis good-bye "See you there babe!"

"Wally," said Artemis "You're 38. Act like it!" everyone knew she didn't mean it.

"What can I say, babe, what can I say!" said Wally before zipping out.

About an hour later newspaper journalists and fans directed their attenchion to Nightwing and Flash (Flash formally known as Kid Flash). The 2 super-heroes walked into the Hall of Justice. Near the doors Miss Martian came out of camoflage mode and greeted her friends.

"Hi guys," she said "We've got an alert,"

"From who Miss M?" asked Nightwing as they went into the library.

"That's the strange part. That time-locked file has opened up. But now it won't let us in unless we give a password," Miss Martian said, vagly waving at some fans behind the glass.

"Password?" said Nightwing "Easy,"

Flash set up the zeta-tubes to take them to the Cave. The mysterious time-locked file was on the Cave systems. It had appeared when the Justice League was still just the Team. No one could open it. Not even the Dynamic Duo.

Meanwhile, at the Cave Mary and Giovarni had arrived. The only ones there were M'att Th'hoo AKA Boy Martian and Will AKA Speed Arrow. Will had been doing some target practice. M'att had been board and was watching.

"Hey guys!" said Giovarni, walking over to them with his crutches.

Will lowered his bow and looked over at the youngest Young Justice member. Mary walked up to him.

"More target practice, Will?" she said, looking at all the bullseyes "With your super-speed you could get a bullseye so fast you would give olympians a run for their money,"

Will blushed a bit. Then notched 3 arrows and got 3 bullseyes in 3 seconds. Mary yawned and produced a bird-a-rang. She threw it and split one of Will's arrows in half. To everyone's relief she hadn't thrown an exploding one.

"Ya parents were at my house this morning," Mary said.

"Oh yeah? So that's where they went. 'Least Mom had gotten my arrows ready before she left," said Will, hooking his collapsible bow to his belt.

"Hahaha," laughed Mary.

Will smiled at her.

"You sound just like Nightwing when you laugh," Will said.

"Shut up," said Mary, smiling.

"Hahaha!" Giovarni laughed at his sister.

"So do you pint-sized," Will said, pointing to the 10-year-old.

The 4 of them went off to the living/kitchan area and put on a movie. Then the computer annoynced the arrival of Sword-Swipe AKA Lian Nguyen Harper. She came along and jumped on to the sofa.

"Got any missions?" she asked Mary.

"Nope," then the computer annoynced Nightwing's, Miss Martian's and Flash's arrival "But I could be wrong..."

The Team members ran in to the main hub of the Cave. Nightwing had already brought up the time-locked file. It asked for a 7 digit password. The file's title had aquired a number sequence that wasn't there before... Nightwing smiled and typed in a number sequence. The file accepted it and loaded a video. The Young Justice members had no idea what was going on. Nightwing, Flash and Miss Martian gasped at the date the video had been made.

"Miss Martian call the rest of the League and Young Justice members. We're about to find out what happened those 72 hours," Nightwing said.

The entire League, including Zatanna who had given up being a super-hero when she got pregnant with Mary, gathered in the briefing room. By Nightwing's request the entire Team were gathered and in uniform. The newly arrived Team members were Rachel Ervin AKA Aqualas, Cameron Kent AKA the second Superboy, Miranda Kent AKA Supergirl and Benny Smith AKA Batboy. Everone was silent. The League were having a telepathic conversation thanks to Miss Martian. Young Justice were having one thanks to Boy Martian.

"What the hecks happening?" said Boy Martian.

"Search me. I've got no idea," said Robin AKA Mary.

"What's all this about 72 hours?" Speed Arrow asked.

"Beats me," said Sword-Swipe.

"Enough telepathy," said Nightwing and both Martians shut down the phychic links "Time to explain,"

"Go ahead then!" said Sword-Swipe, growing in patiant.

"22 years ago, back when we were still the Team we all blacked out on the 6th of June. When we came to it was the 9th. The last thing any of us remembered was a bright light. We couldn't remember a thing. We checked security footage but it had all been erased. After checking the systems I found a file. There was a time lock on it so it would only open after a curtain amount of time. 22 years to be exact. After all that time it has finally opened. The files name gave a clue to its password. It was one of my old Robin-codes. Anyway, here's the clip," said Nightwing pressing play.

A 14-year-old boy with raven black hair and the Grayson blue eyes appeared on screen. He was wearing the original Robin costume but his mask was in his hand. He had several wonds, scars and burns. He smiled Nightwing's signiture smirk that was originally called the Robin-smirk.

"Ok... acording to Time Team back there..." he began but momentarilly stopped when there was a huge crash "Me and the rest of Young Justice forget the past 3 days. So um... in this file there is everything you need to um... this is so wierd," he murmured the last thing "Anyway, I'm Robin and according to my future daughter I become Nightwing. Aparantly K.F becomes Flash. Follow the instructions and um..." he seemed to be having trouble explaining "Zee can you explain?"

A teenaged version of Zatanna stood next to the past Robin.

"Just follow the blue prints in this file. Basically, you need to send the Girl Wonder, Zatara mark 2, Boy Martian and Speed Arrow back in time. I don't quite get the reason so..." she looked behind her "Future Robin, can you explain the reason?"

To the shock of all Mary in a battle-worn uniform walked up.

"Basically, ya know that alien race. The one that annoynced they're gonna invade? Well they have a weakness. An element called Crushmandine 24. Problem is the last known location of it is in 2012. So basically, you sent us back in time to get it. Don't mess up the time stream by not sending us, 'kay, Dad? Like Past Robin and Zatanna said, follow the blue prints," and with that the video ended.

Everyone stared in disbelief. Nightwing brought up the blue prints. They was a location and the name of equipment.

"Kids..." said Nightwing.

"Yeah, Dad?" asked Robin.

"You're going back in time..."

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