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 The League was giving a press conference, and the team were not invited. They sat outside a nearby strip mall, eating frozen yogurt.

"We can't have you in the way," Robin mimicked his mentor resentfully. "you're rogue elements."

"He's such a jerk." Artemis picked at her toppings. "What does he think we're gonna do? Spill everyone's secret IDs?" She rolled her eyes. "They treat us like such children sometimes."

"Yeah, like when they would make us have 'play dates' while the adults handled the serious missions." Wally scoffed

"What?" Conner asked.

"Oh right, that was before your time." He snorted.

"Shut up."

"Aw, is baby upset that we're older than him?"

"Shut up!"

"Kid, stop antagonizing him." Kaldur ordered.

Wally sighed. "But it's just so easy." He laughed, nudging Conner in the ribs. "I'm just teasing, we're thick as thieves, aren't we Connie?"

"mmnm." He grunted.

M'gann was too busy enjoying her frozen treat to give her friends much mind. "What do you think they're talking about?"

"We'll see in the news soon enough." Robin replied.

"By which you mean we'll see the memes soon enough." Wally negged.

"Same difference." He polished off his snack. "Come on, let's get going: time and tide and abandoned rollercoasters await for no man."

"This place is creepy."

"It used to be a normal pier-side amusement park," Robin explained, "but you know villains; they're always jumping at the opportunity to take over an amusement park for their headquarters"

"They are?" M'gann asked.

"Oh yeah." Robin nodded. "All the time."

Kaldur hmmed. "If it is abandoned, why is it so..." He gestured at the ten foot fence.

"Protected to hell and back?"

"I was going to say fortified, but yes."

"Stupid teens and ghost hunters are always trying to sneak in." Wally shrugged.

"You mean, like we're about to?" Conner asked.

"We're different." Wally said, almost offended.

"Guys!" Robin called from behind a nearby bush, following his voice, they found the boy squeezing under a gap in the chain-link fence. "And bingo was his name-o, to coin a phrase." He said, emerging on the other side.

"Uh, earth to Robin, we can't fit under there." Artemis pointed out to her petit friend.

"Uh, earth to Artemis, Supes has super strength."

Murmuring something about only ever being used as a living battering ram, Conner twisted the metal up, making room for the others to crawl under.

Once inside, the teens looked up in wonder, taking in the desolate theme park. It seemed frozen, other than a little spray paint it was exactly in the state it'd been left in; cobweb-ridden cheap stuffed animals lined the game stalls, the old wooden coaster towered above, and a heavy scent of dust and sugar choked them.

Kaldur coughed, pulling his sweatshirt over his nose. "Are we sure this it a good..."

"No sweat, people break in all the time. There's basically no security."

"That isn't exactly what worries me." He said through the fabric. Kaldur had very bad allergies to just about anything he could touch or inhale-- especially inhale-- and this place was irritating his fragile lungs.

"This place is seriously creepy." Dick sighed contentedly. "I wonder if we could climb into one of the old Ferris Wheel cars."

"I'm not sure that's..." Kaldur began, but he'd already taken off, two friends on his heels.

 Robin swung up into the lowest hanging car, helping Artemis and Wally up after him.

It felt good to break into places and act rebelliously. It sure beat how the league coddled them. I mean, excluding them from press conferences? Sure, he could get why they'd want to hide Conner and M'gann, but the public already knew about the rest of them! It's not like they were a secret!

"This," Artemis sighed, leaning against the wall of the gondola, "this would be a great place to smoke weed."

Wally laughed. "You're so predictable."

"Yeah, yeah. Get off my ass." She scoffed. "I do what I do to cope."

"Does your mommy know you to drugs?" Dick teased.

"Does your daddy know you're about to be put in a neck brace?" Artemis snapped back at him.

"Ladies, ladies," Wally batted his hand at them, "You're both beautiful."

"Shut up!" Both gothamites chorused, distracted from their petty feud. If Wally was good at one thing, it was giving them a common enemy.

M'gann wandered over to what must have once been a log flume ride, now filled to the brim with stagnant water.

"Whoa! It's like a swamp."

"No--" Kaldur grabbed them by her wrist. "You could get ill."

"Oh." She said, somewhat dejectedly.

Kaldur, still gripping them tight, lead M'gann away from the ride. He headed towards the silhouette of the Ferris wheel.

Conner didn't know what a funhouse was, but as far as he could tell it was a misnomer. It was not fun, nor was it a house; just a twisting maze of ratty old props in an old battered building. dormant water pooled on the concrete floor beneath his feet.

He approached a door, an ancient, well vandalized  sign above the door read: 'ror maze'. At least that's what he could read. Conqueror Maze? Terror Maze?  Error Maze?

Entering the room, he was met by superman's face. and another. and another. 

Mirror Maze. 

Many of the mirrors were already broken, what weren't, he shattered.

The trio climbed down the ladder that ran up the Ferris Wheel's spire.

They were a few meters from the bottom when Wally fell. His fingers grappled for the ladder rung, but his palms were sweaty. Wally fell three meters, landing in a heap.

"...ow." He whimpered. 

Artemis' first reaction was to laugh, hopping down the remaining rungs. "You alright, butter fingers?"

"No." He grunted. "Can, can you get Kaldur?"

Dick hopped to the ground, rushing to his friends' side as Artemis took off to find their leader.

The kids were nowhere to be found, not backstage, not at the ship, not at the zeta...

"I'm guessing this is the last time we let your 'rogue elements'  run wild." Green Lantern said.

Bruce couldn't say he was surprised, just disappointed. They spent weeks trying to protect them, only for the kids to run off at the first chance they got and get into god knows what.

"I'm tracking Robin's belt. Mentors with me."

They lined the teens up and assessed them for damage. Wally had a sprained ankle, Artemis and Robin were flustered, Conner was covered in broken glass and Kaldur looked two minutes from tearing his hair out. M'gann, all things considered, seemed no worse for wear (which J'onn was grateful for).

"We leave you  alone for two hours." Bruce scolded. "All you had to do was stay put for two hours."

"B..." Robin said, looking a little embarrassed. 

"Do you need a babysitter?" The bat continued. "One of you got hurt-- more of you could have."

"We aren't made of glass!" Artemis objected. "Sure Wally got hurt, but he'll get better!"

Bruce sighed heavily. It was his own fault for introducing the kids without strict precautions. They were all so foolhardy and reckless, theu needed buffers to protect themself from each other. "None of you are meeting up without supervision for the next two weeks." The half-dozen teens began complaining. "And, when you do, you're not to leave the mountain."

Those were his final words as he grabbed Robin and escorted him home.