The group groaned as they were thrown into the grimy cell, all the metas/aliens with dampening collars on. The intruders were then dragged to the walls and chained accordingly, The Shadows were done underestimating the team's tendency to not only get away but also blow everything up while they were at it.

Silence fell over the cell as they were left alone to groan over their injuries from the blades on the assassins' various weapons. "How bad is it, Rob?" Kid Flash asked after a few moments.

Robin's head lazily rolled up to look at his friend closest to the door and mumbled out a string of words that were either unintelligible or another language altogether. KF paled and then used his foot to knock on the door in a sporadic pattern.

A few of the others, mainly Artemis and Kaldur that noticed the presence of a pattern, gave him an odd look at the sudden noise. Robin reached out and lightly hit Kid Flash on the shoulder in protest but didn't do much more since the amount of blood around him was slowly growing to a dangerous size around the boy.

The door opened and an older teen looked into the cell before landing eyes on the injured bird. He sighed in exasperation, glared quickly at the others in the room before walking out again and slamming the door shut. The man mumbled some choice words in a foreign language as he walked away.

[Not my fault!] Robin whined out towards the door weakly in Arabic before slumping back against the wall. A few seconds passed before the Boy Wonder added to his statement in his native tongue, {asshole.} Wally snickered.

The more aware and anxious team members whispered and tested out ways to get free before their teammate lost too much blood to make it back to Mount Justice alive. This was stopped when the same man reappeared with a first aid kit and blood bags before closing the door behind him. Robin tried to wiggle away as the man leaned down and studied the younger boy in front of him.

Without warning, he grabbed scissors and started to cut away the kevlar material despite Robin's protests. The material was stripped away to show a large gash and bullet hole with blood gushing out of them. The man covered the wounds in gauze before pulling disinfectant out of the kit to apply to the wounds. [Please, Dami, no,] Robin pleaded in Arabic.

Damian glared in response and Robin huffed since he knew this was necessary. [Bite,] Damian held up a thick strip of fabric and Dick compiled before screaming at the sting on the gash as the disinfectant was poured over it.

The team watched silently as Damian continued to fix the injuries and remove the embedded bullet. [Do any of the others need help?] Damian asked in Arabic as he put the bloodied materials into a sanitary bag to be disposed of.

[KF fractured his ankle but should be good soon. Otherwise, they need minimal sound and light,] Robin said as he scanned the others that might have a concussion at worst from the blows they all took that knocked them out/dazed them earlier. Wally nodded in confirmation.

Damian looked them all over and noticed Dick shiver slightly. [I'm taking you to your room before you acquire hypothermia,] he decided.

[I'm fine here,] Robin protested, intent on staying with his team so they could escape.

Damian's eyes darkened, [I wasn't asking.] He picked up his protesting brother and held him firmly over his shoulder in a way that wouldn't hurt the bird unless he moved too much. Robin swore in a variety of languages when he realized getting away would rip his new stitches.

Kid Flash held back a snicker as he swore and the others screamed out their own profanities asking where they were taking their teammate. {I'll be in my room if you need me,} Robin grumbled in Romani before the doors closed once more.

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[Can I at least stay with you?] Dick mumbled finally as they walked through the halls, the boy still over his brother's shoulder.

Damian paused and gently shifted Dick into a bridal style hold to look him over. [As long as you sleep,] he conceded and the bird nodded with a sleepy smile. After the allnighter last night and the new wounds it wouldn't be hard.

Damian smiled slightly and stopped by the Bird's room at the base to leave his stuff on the bed with a letter that they'll be in his office instead. With the sleeping Boy Wonder in his arms, he grabbed an extra blanket and a spare shadow uniform before making his way down the winding hallways.

Once in his office, he laid Dick out on the small couch in the room with a blanket and pillow before moving to his desk to finish the research for a mission his mother asked him to do later that week.

It was a peaceful quiet as Damian worked and let his brother sleep soundly for what must have been the first time in a long while. The only sound in the room was the click of computer keys and the scratch of pen on paper with the occasional shift from the sofa in the seating area off to the side.

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A bang sounded as Kid Flash sped into the door before opening it. Damian looked up at the clock to notice almost 2 hours had passed since he started working and that Dick had tensed up under the blanket he was cuddled into. "Tt- I thought it was established you cannot phase through solid objects yet, West," he commented haughtily in his usual manner, "I do not think my grandfather's base is the best place to practice either since you just woke my brother up." He glared at the sheepish speedster that closed the door behind him.

"How long was I out?" Dick interrupted any excuse from his best friend. The blood bag he was previously set up with now done and cleaned up.

"About 2 hours," Damian supplied. Dick sighed and pulled the blanket over his head.

"Why am I still so tired?" He whined childishly into the pillow, careful not to aggravate his injuries.

Wally snickered, "because you're hurt, dude." Robin just swore multiculturally into the cushion. "Heads up that the team will be here any minute," He said after getting a response from M'gann over the mind link.

"So what's the plan?" Dick asked from the couch, Wally could practically see the mischief dancing in his masked eyes.

Damian looked between the two and took a moment to think.

"Plan 15a"

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'STOP' Wally exclaimed through the link as the team burst through the door. They froze behind the speedster as they took in the situation of the room.

Robin hadn't moved much other than him being propped up against Damian's chest with his arms and legs tied together and then with a length to keep Robin's arms from moving up in any way. The blanket hidden from view. Damian held his brother up and in place by a knife to the throat right over an inhibitor collar that was preventing the mind link from reaching him.

"Well isn't this a sight," Damian mused as he looked over the worried and determined faces in front of him.

The teens fell into a battle stance to try and intimidate the assassin but the smug smirk didn't leave his face. "Release Robin, we have you outnumbered," Aqualad commanded much to both Bats amusement, not that Robin showed it as he put up his mask of tensed fear.

"I think not," Damian mused, "now if you want the bird to live you'll quietly return to your cell and wait for us to decide your fate." He pushed the knife up higher when they didn't move immediately. Guards showed in the door behind them and pulled the hesitant teens back to their cell with new inhibitor collars and stronger bindings to prevent escape.

"Get some more sleep while we wait for Father to get you and your team," Damian said as he took the collar and bindings off once the heroes were gone. Robin nodded as he grabbed the blanket to snuggle back into and drifted off again.

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The group strained at the bindings fruitlessly but paused when a commotion was made outside the door. It swung open to a scowling Batman. He looked over each of them for injuries and leaned down to untie Kid Flash. "Where's Robin," he grunted as the metal cuffs dropped away from the teen and he worked on the collar.

Wally pulled the hidden belt and gloves he had grabbed from Dick's room before. "Renegade took him. He should be still in his office with him," he reported.

The collar fell away and Batman grabbed the holo glove and hit a few buttons so a screen popped up and the lock pick extended. "Free the others and return to the Bioship," he grunted and left the cell after handing him the glove back, taking the opposite glove and belt with him. Wally instantly moved to Aqualad and started his task.

Batman worked his way down the hall silently and entered his son's private study with ease. Renegade looked up to see his father and held up a finger in silence before gesturing to the young teen sleeping on the couch. Batman smiled softly and took a seat by the desk. "How is he?" He asked quietly.

"Sleeping off a bullet wound," Damian responded back and glanced over at his brother. "The Shadow is being punished for acting against orders I assure you."

They stood and Bruce approached the couch. Carefully he replaced the belt and glove on his ward and picked him up. Dick stirred at the movement. "Go back to sleep, Chum, you need it," Bruce reassured as he ran a gloved hand through his hair gently. Robin nodded and melted into the hold as the cape came around the two of them.

Renegade led them through the base to where the other heroes were waiting and stopped right before he could be seen, in the shadows. "I'll see you this weekend?" Batman asked when he noticed his son wasn't following further.

"Grayson would hunt me down if I didn't show," Renegade smirked and ran a hand gently under the cape and through the raven hair below.

A muffled, "thanks, I love you, Dami," came from inside the dark interior and both men chuckled and nodded farewell before Batman returned to the other heroes and took off back towards Mount Justice.